To help you stay on top of each week’s new graphic novels and anime, we present the following list compiled from Diamond Comic Distributors’ complete weekly shipping list and Anime News Network’s Releases encyclopedia

Some of this week’s highlights:

Guarding the Globe Volume 1: From the universe of Invincible, a new international super team is assembled

Lenore: Swirlies: A deluxe collection of Roman Dirge’s cute and twisted little goth girl

Luz Makes a Splash: Faced with a drought, a plucky girl and her friends set up an irrigation system and save the day

The Voyeurs: Gabrielle Bell’s unique autobiographical comics trace her life over five years in Brooklyn and across the globe

Graphic Novels

215 Ink

  • WARPED ADV OF SANDY AND ANGUS TP

Abrams

  • KEL GILLIGANS DAREDEVIL STUNT SHOW HC
  • NATHAN HALES HAZARDOUS TALES GN VOL 02 BIG BAD IRONCLAD

Antarctic Press

  • HOW TO DRAW SCIFI SUPERSIZE TP

Archaia

  • MOUSE GUARD LEGENDS O/T GUARD HC VOL 01 LEATHER BOUND ED
  • RETURN O/T DAPPER MEN HC VOL 01 LEATHER BOUND ED

Archie Comics

  • SONIC SAGA TP VOL 01 DARKEST STORM

BOOM! Studios

  • HELLRAISER MASTERPIECES TP VOL 02
  • IRREDEEMABLE TP VOL 10

Consortium

  • VOYEURS GN

Dark Horse

  • REX MUNDI OMNIBUS TP VOL 01
  • RIVEN TP
  • STAR WARS OMNIBUS CLONE WARS VOL 01 REPUBLIC WAR TP

DC

  • END OF NATIONS TP
  • GREEN LANTERN ARCHIVES HC VOL 07
  • RESURRECTION MAN TP VOL 01 DEAD AGAIN
  • SHOWCASE PRESENTS TALES OT UNEXPECTED TP VOL 01
  • SUPERNATURAL THE DOGS OF EDINBURGH TP

Dynamic Forces

  • KIRBY GENESIS TP VOL 01

Gestalt Publishing

  • CHANGING WAYS GN VOL 02

Hermes Press

  • DARK SHADOWS COMP SERIES HC VOL 05
  • PHANTOM COMP SERIES HC KING YEARS

IDW

  • GI JOE / TRANSFORMERS TP VOL 01
  • GI JOE FIELD MANUAL SC VOL 01
  • TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES CLASSICS TP VOL 02

Image

  • DARKNESS REBIRTH TP VOL 01
  • GUARDING THE GLOBE TP VOL 01
  • PETER PANZERFAUST TP VOL 01 THE GREAT ESCAPE

Kids Can Press

  • GOLDEN TWINE GN
  • LUZ MAKES A SPLASH GN

Kodansha

  • GON GN VOL 07

Marvel

  • DEADPOOL CLASSIC TP VOL 07
  • FEAR ITSELF TP THUNDERBOLTS
  • JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY TP VOL 01 FEAR ITSELF
  • MACHINE TEEN TP HISTORY 101001
  • ULTIMATE COMICS ULTIMATES BY HICKMAN TP VOL 01
  • X-MEN LEGACY TP FIVE MILES SOUTH OF UNIVERSE

Oni Press

  • COURTNEY CRUMRIN SPEC ED HC VOL 02
  • PENNY ARCADE TP VOL 08 MAGICAL KIDS IN DANGER

Panini Publishing

  • DR WHO CRIMSON HAND GN

PS Artbooks

  • HARVEY HORRORS COLL WORKS BLACK CAT MYSTERY HC VOL 01
  • HARVEY HORRORS COLL WORKS CHAMBER OF CHILLS HC VOL 02
  • HARVEY HORRORS COLL WORKS TOMB OF TERROR HC VOL 01
  • HARVEY HORRORS COLL WORKS WITCHES TALES HC VOL 01

Scholastic

  • AMULET SC VOL 05 PRINCE OF THE ELVES
  • BABY SITTERS CLUB SC VOL 04 CLAUDIA & MEAN JANINE NEW PTG

Sofawolf Press

  • PRYDWEN GODS AND MONSTERS GN

Sterling Publishing

  • ALL ACTION CLASSICS WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ GN

Titan Books

  • LENORE SWIRLIES HC

Vanguard Productions

  • NEAL ADAMS MONSTERS HC

Anime

Funimation

  • Freezing – Complete Series
  • Kaleido Star – Season 1 Complete Collection
  • Texhnolyze – Complete Series

Sentai

  • K-ON! Season 2 – Collection 2
  • Koihime Muso – Ultimate Collection

Keep in mind that titles are not always available from book vendors on the same dates as they are released in comic book stores, so not all of these will be available everywhere at the same time. Check with your vendors, just to be sure!

  • Robin B.

    Editor in Chief

    Teen Librarian, Public Library of Brookline | She/Her

    Robin E. Brenner is Teen Librarian at the Brookline Public Library in Massachusetts. She has chaired the American Library Association Great Graphic Novels for Teens Selection List Committee, the Margaret A. Edwards Award Committee, and served on the Michael L. Printz Award Committee. She was a judge for the 2007 Eisner awards, helped judge the Boston Globe Horn Book Awards in 2011, and contributes to the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. She regularly gives lectures and workshops on graphic novels, manga, and anime at comics conventions including New York and San Diego Comic-Con and at the American Library Association’s conferences. Her guide, Understanding Manga and Anime (Libraries Unlimited, 2007), was nominated for a 2008 Eisner Award.