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Angélique Roché, Alvin Epps, Bex Glendining & Millicent Monroe, are launching a new graphic novel, First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth, to be published in February 2026 from Oni Press, the same publisher behind the most politically controversial graphic novel of the decade, Gender Queer Telling the "true story of one woman's[...]

Writing in a 23rd of December summary judgment, Judge Timothy Brooks wrote that if the Arkansas legislature's goal was "to protect younger minors from accessing inappropriate sexual content in libraries and bookstores," and that it would "only achieve that end at the expense of everyone else's First Amendment rights… The law deputizes librarians and booksellers[...]

Oni Press, publisher of Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer: A Memoir and Sophie Campbell's Wet Moon, is to publish the next segment in their bestselling Quick and Easy Guide series: A Quick And Easy Guide To Coming Out by Kristin Russo of This is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids and artist Ravi Teixeira intended[...]

And more often than not, the graphic novel Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, a non-binary coming-of-age graphic novel published by Oni Press is the declared bullseye of many of them and has been used by politicians to both win local elections – and also to lose them But earlier this year, things took to a new level as[...]

In her time at Oni, Wood worked closely with Simon & Schuster to grow the sales of such titles as Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim, Katie O'Neill's The Tea Dragon Society, Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson's A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns, Brenna Thummler's Sheets, Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer, and Justin Roiland and[...]

And more often than not, the graphic novel Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe and published by Oni Press is the declared bullseye of many of them and has been used by politicians to both win local elections – and also to lose them But ahead of the next electoral cycle in American politics, it seems that the outrage[...]

Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding is a comic book guide to gender-affirming care with real-life stories and research-backed advice about chest binding, from Gender Queer author Maia Kobabe and University of Michigan professor Doctor Sarah Peitzmeier, Intended to be a practical resource for trans and nonbinary people, it wil be based on Professor Peitzmeier's academic research, the[...]

The Human Rights Campaign will always fight to ensure students have access to books that broaden their perspectives, help them learn and grow, and allow them to see themselves in literature and society." Heartstopper appears to be the latest targeted book in libraries and bookstores, as Conservative right groups have moved on (a bit) from Gender[...]

While the books were unnamed, one was described as being about a "transgender teenager's life experiences", which was going to be Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe. Now the Campbell County Public Library director Terri Lesley in Wyoming has been fired after 27 years after she refused to remove LGBTQ+ books from library shelves, including Gender Queer. In[...]

When Gender Queer was a focus of such attacks, the excuse was that it was for graphic imagery rather than having anything to do with gender or sexual identity Not any more. The Mississippi Free Press reports that the Columbia-Marion County Public Library board voted to restrict Heartstopper to the adult section and to review all[...]

And a little animation. Maia Kobabe is the most censored author in the USA today for eir graphic memoir Gender Queer Political candidates have used it in their political campaigns, libraries have been closed down for even stocking the award-winning comic and Borders has had legal action launched by Virginian politicians against it All while the[...]

And more often than not, the graphic novel Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe and published by Oni Press is the declared bullseye of many of them and has been used by politicians to both win local elections – and also to lose them. Up and down America, there have been high school meetings with outraged parents[...]

His actions have led to numerous books and graphic novels being removed from school libraries, and that has included the Gender Queer: A Graphic Memoir by Maia Kobabe. DeSantis rejects that this is "book banning" and last week held a press conference in which he showed a video, including selected scenes from Gender Queer, saying "I just think[...]

Nothing like that terrible Gender Queer graphic novel I read about on Fox News Although, TokyoPop are publishing Disney comics like Disney: Descendents so who knows… Sorry, my mistake, TokyoPop is publishing a Japanese take on Gender Queer called At 30 I Realised I Had No Gender, as well as a story about gay marriage in[...]

Bleeding Cool has been running many articles about recent news coverage about the graphic novel Gender Queer: A Graphic Memoir by Maia Kobabe as a new edition has come out from Oni Press. Initially marketed toward older audiences, winning an American Library Association Award in 2020 for "books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults ages 12 through 18"[...]

Maia Kobabe is the creator of the most-banned graphic novel in America – and one of its best-selling – Gender Queer: A Memoir That book, initially published in 2019, was not initially intended for kids, but won awards for its appeal to a younger audience However, the reaction from some parents – and politicians –[...]

Bleeding Cool has been running many articles about recent news coverage about the graphic novel Gender Queer: A Graphic Memoir by Maia Kobabe as a new edition has come out from Oni Press. Initially marketed toward older audiences, winning an American Library Association Award in 2020 for "books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults ages 12 through 18"[...]

The company merged with Lion Forge Comics in 2019, creating the Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, a subsidiary of Lion Forge founder David Steward II's media company, Polarity, and taking on the most-banned book in the United States Of America in recent years, Gender Queer. Says Steward on Gorinson's new role, "From our earliest conversations, it was clear[...]

The New Hampshire Union Leader reports that Brian O'Connell, the principal of Bow High School in Bow, New Hampshire had been targeted by parents of the school, concerned that the graphic novel Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe was in his school library. Local politician Manchester Alderman Joe Kelly Levasseur had posted select pages to[...]

Bleeding Cool has been running many articles about recent news coverage about the graphic novel Gender Queer: A Graphic Memoir by Maia Kobabe as a new edition has come out from Oni Press Initially marketed toward older audiences, winning an American Library Association Award in 2020 for "books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults ages 12 through[...]

Bleeding Cool has been covering the increase in such activity in the US, concerning schools, school libraries, public libraries and commercial bookstores which have been targeted over a number of titles, specifically those concerning racial, sexual or gender issues, with Gender Queer: A Graphic Memoir by Maia Kobabe published by Oni Press getting the brunt[...]

Conservative political action committee Maine Families First PAC has announced a $600,000 television advertising campaign targeting the Democrat Maine Governor Janet Mills, by highlighting the comic book Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe and published by Oni Press The graphic novel has become the centre of attention of conservative campaigns across a number of[...]

She also served as an Adjunct Professor in NYU's Graduate Publishing Program in 2011 and completed the Yale University Publishing Course in 2013. In 2016, Andrea Colvin was made Senior Editor and then VP Executive Editor of Lion Forge Comics, where she acquired one of the most banned and best-selling graphic novels in the USA this[...]

Bleeding Cool has been running many articles about recent news coverage about the graphic novel Gender Queer: A Graphic Memoir by Maia Kobabe as a new edition has come out from Oni Press. Initially marketed toward older audiences, winning an American Library Association Award in 2020 for "books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults ages 12[...]

Bleeding Cool has been running many articles about recent news coverage about the graphic novel Gender Queer: A Graphic Memoir by Maia Kobabe as a new edition comes out from Oni Press. The Cowboy State Daily reports that a meeting of the Natrona County School Board in Casper, Wyoming, saw police step in after a substitute teacher was called a[...]

Two weeks-and-change ago, Bleeding Cool ran the article, A Week In The Life Of Banned Graphic Novel, Gender Queer Last week we followed up with Another Week In The Life Of Graphic Novel, Gender Queer Since then we had Banned Books Week which saw even more coverage of the graphic novel Gender Queer: A Graphic Memoir by Maia[...]

Last week, Bleeding Cool ran the article, A Week In The Life Of Banned Graphic Novel, Gender Queer Well, it has been quite a week since then, and it's not even Banned Books Week yet As Gender Queer: A Graphic Memoir by Maia Kobabe is about to become even well known just as a new edition[...]

It's been quite a week for Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe Again, I mean No sooner has it defeated obscenity lawsuits and been investigated by Plymouth police than it is back in the news as the most banned book of 2022, as it was 2021, at the same time as Oni Press publishes a[...]

It's not just the graphic novel Gender Queer that is under assault in public libraries, schools libraries, or even bookstores, plenty of books and graphic novels are being targeted by groups, for having LGBTQ and racial content, often with an eye to try and engender suspicion, hate and outrage in order to get elected Well,[...]

Time Magazine gave an interview to Maia Kobabe over eir graphic novel, Gender Queer: A Memoir, which has been hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons, and occasionally the right ones Kobabe identifies as non-binary, prefers the use of non-binary pronouns e/em and eir, and eir journey towards that is much of what the graphic[...]