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SDCC 2026: Levine Querido Presents: Native American Author Julie Fiveash

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The Froggy Library 

Levine Querido spotlights author Julie Fiveash and their new debut graphic novel The Froggy Library at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. 

The Froggy Library is a story about grief, Native American heritage, and community archives and librarianship. It tells the story of one important summer in Anura’s life — as they learn about independence and connect with their community, working with their local library to get to know their neighbors and their history as they spend the season with their grandmother. 

SDCC Schedule

Drawing Courage: YA GNs that Speak Up
Friday, July 24, 2026, 12:00PM – 1:00PM, Shiley Special Events Suite at the San Diego Central Library 

Join graphic novel creators  Julie Fiveash (The Froggy Library), Jarrett Dapier (Wake Now in the Fire), Jennie Wood (I Didn’t Ask for This), R. Sikoryak (Declaration / Emancipation Illustration), and Rob Reger (Emily the Strange) for a lively conversation about how young adult graphic novels give shape to moments of standing up, speaking out, and wanting change

Queer Comics in Color
Sunday, 7/26/26, 10:30AM – 11:30AM, Room: 10
Inclusion and diversity are crucial to storytelling. All cultural voices deserve to be heard in comics and popular media. Join Prism Comics, Moderator Viktor Kerney (We Belong), and panelists Julie Fiveash (The Froggy Library), Ajuan Mance (Gender Studies), and Sean Z (MYTH) in a discussion of the contributions of queer people of color to comic books and graphic novels and ways of creating a more inclusive and powerful queer geek community.

Prism Comics Signing

Sunday, 7/26/26, 12:00PM – 1:00PM, Booth 2144

Julie Fiveash (they/them) is an LA-based nonbinary Diné cartoonist, zinester, and stationary fiend. They were the first-ever Librarian for American Indigenous Studies at Harvard University. Julie’s interests include Indigenous librarianship, Indigenous publishing, community archives, and drawing animals, plants, fan art, and many things slice-of-life. The Froggy Library is their first graphic novel.

Shaun Tan’s Hometown is a visually gorgeous, emotionally stunning, funny, and insightful exploration of identity, and what it means to be home

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From the singular mind and brush of New York Times bestselling and Academy Award-winning author-artist Shaun Tan, comes his newest graphic novel, Hometown. It comes to shelves September 1, 2026 from Levine Querido Books.

Hometown is a visually gorgeous, emotionally stunning (and frequently funny) meditation about what it means to belong, and what makes us who we are. Hometown will be published simultaneously in the US, Australia, and the UK.

A girl grows up happily with her adoptive parents, a big sister and a little sister, and friends galore in a vibrant, close-knit community she adores . . . until a creature from outer space falls from the sky and claims (correctly) that she looks more like him than any of the beings she knows and loves. He urges her to go back with him. She doesn’t belong here. Can he be . . . right?

Hometown is a perfect companion to The Arrival, celebrating 20 years in 2026, Shaun Tan’s new masterpiece is a uniquely powerful, funny, and insightful exploration of identity, and what it means to be home.

You can pre-order it now from Amazon, Bookshop, and your local comic shop and bookstore.

SDCC 2024: Levine Querido Presents: Jonell Joshua on Comics and Mental Health

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Levine Querido Jonell Joshua at San Diego Comic-Con 2024

Levine Querido presents featured author Jonell Joshua at San Diego Comic-Con 2024 (SDCC). Jonell is the author of the autobiographical How Do I Draw These Memories (on sale April 2024). San Diego Comic-Con 2024 takes place July 25 to July 28, 2024.

In her book, Jonell explores her childhood living with her mother and her brothers while her mother struggled with mental health. She and her siblings sometimes lived with grandparents, moving and switching schools, when her mother couldn’t provide them the home they needed due to her bipolar disorder. It’s a powerful story of a family full of love figuring out the best ways for them to be together. The book is told in a multimedia format: with personal essays, illustrated memories, and comics-format chapters. 

Jonell will be speaking about comics and mental health on the ‘How Comics Can Empower Marginalized Teens‘ panel at SDCC on Saturday, July 27th at 6pm in Room Grand 12/13 at the Marriott Marquis. 

Jonell Joshua found her calling for art at a young age after she found her mother’s art portfolio in the bedroom of her childhood home. Hoping to emulate her mother’s talents, Jonell started drawing kid’s portraits in the cafeteria during lunch. Today Jonell is an award-winning illustrator based in Brooklyn, New York. Her professional work has explored a range of topics in editorial illustration and publication, including illustrating for Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real Life Tales of Black Girl Magic, The Queens of the Resistance series, and work featured in the film Selah and the Spades. She has made illustrations for clients including The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, and NPR.

Exclusive Preview: Henrique Coser Moreira’s The First Day of May

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Here is a book to celebrate firsts. That first magical day of spring, when it seems the whole world is bursting with life. That first time bursting out of your house after being cooped up for SO long. Your first time on the swingset. Your first time seeing a butterfly. Your first time exploring the world with someone you love. From Henrique Coser Moreira comes a wordless ode to joy and discovery that will stir readers young and old, The First Day of May.

Henrique Coser Moreira was born in the city of Curitiba, Brazil, in 1998. As a child, he was very shy, quiet, and observant, and used to spend his days drawing in the margins of books, notebooks, or on his desk. Today he is an illustrator and graphic designer. His debut book, The First Day of May, won the 4th Serpa International Prize for Picturebooks, was selected for the 57th Illustrators Exhibition at Bologna Children’s Book Fair, and received a Special Mention for the Bologna Ragazzi Award (BRAW) in the “Comics – Early Reader” category.

The First Day of May is out now from Levine Querido.

Exclusive Preview: 49 Days, Agnes Lee’s debut graphic novel

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You might know Agnes Lee‘s work for the New York Times ‘Metropolitan Diary’ feature that captures a slice of life in the city — that’s where Levine Querido editor Nick Thomas first came across her comics. And once he got in touch, Lee’s debut graphic novel 49 Days was the result. 

49 Days has its roots in a Korean Buddhist tradition: after someone dies, it takes forty-nine days of traveling for them to fully cross over. The book explores that, following Kit on her travels — while her family grieves and tries to find what’s next in their lives. It’s a thoughtful, contemplative book — a perfect synthesis with Agnes’ lovely artwork. 

Gotta get up. Gotta keep moving. This map – it says I have to cross over here. Wait, what’s that…?

49 Days is an unforgettable story of death, grief, love, and how we keep moving forward.

Agnes Lee grew up in the Bay Area and is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Art Center College of Design. She is a former Chronicle Books fellow and was an Art Director at the The New York Times for several years where she began illustrating the Metropolitan Diary column. She now lives in Portland, OR, with her partner and cat. In addition to art, she loves the outdoors and playing ultimate frisbee.

49 Days

Exclusive Preview: Brooms, a queer, witchy adventure that shines light on history not often told

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It’s 1930s Mississippi. Magic is permitted only in certain circumstances, and by certain people. Unsanctioned broom racing is banned. But for those who need the money, or the thrills…it’s there to be found.

Meet Billie Mae, captain of the Night Storms racing team, and Loretta, her best friend and second-in-command. They’re determined to make enough money to move out west to a state that allows Black folks to legally use magic and take part in national races.

Cheng-Kwan – doing her best to handle the delicate and dangerous double act of being the perfect “son” to her parents, and being true to herself while racing.

Mattie and Emma – Choctaw and Black – the youngest of the group and trying to dodge government officials who want to send them and their newly-surfaced powers away to boarding school.

And Luella, in love with Billie Mae. Her powers were sealed away years ago after she fought back against the government. She’ll do anything to prevent the same fate for her cousins.

Brooms is a queer, witchy adventure that shines light on history not often told – it’s everything you’d ever want to read in a graphic novel.

Brooms

Jasmine Walls is a writer, artist, and editor with former lives in professional baking and teaching martial arts. She still bakes (though she’s pretty rusty at martial arts) and has a deep love for storytelling, creating worlds, and building tales about the characters who inhabit them. Along with Levine Querido, she has works published with Boom! Studios, Capstone, Oni Press, The Atlantic, and The Nib. She lives in California with two dogs and a large stash of quality hot chocolate.

Teo DuVall is a queer Chicanx comic artist and illustrator based in Seattle, WA. They graduated in 2015 with a BFA in Cartooning from the School of Visual Arts and have had the immense pleasure of working with Levine Querido, HarperCollins, Dark Horse, Chronicle Books, Scholastic and more. He has a passion for fantasy, aesthetic ghost stories, and witches of color, and loves being able to create stories for a living. Teo lives with his partner, their two pets – a giant, cuddly pit-bull, and a tiny, ferocious cat – and a small horde of houseplants.

Exclusive Preview: The Boy From Clearwater

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It’s Banned Books Week and we have an exclusive look at The Boy From Clearwater. It comes to shelves November 21st from Yu Pei-Yun and Zhou Jian-Xin, translated by Lin King, and published by Levine Querido.

Tsai Kun-lin, an ordinary boy, was born in Qingshui, Taichung in 1930s Taiwan. Part one depicts a carefree childhood despite the Japanese occupation: growing up happily with the company of nursery rhymes and picture books on Qingshui Street. As war emerges Tsai’s memories shift to military parades, air raids, and watching others face conscription into the army. It seems no one can escape. After the war, the book-loving teenager tries hard to learn Mandarin and believes he is finally stepping towards a comfortable future, but little does he know, a dark cloud awaits him ahead.

Part two opens with illustrations reminiscent of woodcuts showing the soul-crushing experience of Tsai’s detention and imprisonment. In his second year of high school, Tsai attends a book club hosted by his teacher and is consequently arrested on a false charge of taking part in an “illegal” assembly. After being tortured, he is sentenced to ten years in prison, deprived of civil rights for seven years, and sent to Green Island for “reformation.” Lasting until his release in September 1960, Tsai, a victim of the White Terror era, spent his youth in prison on an unjust charge.

This excerpt of The Boy from Clearwater depicts the events for which Tsai Kun-Lin was arrested and imprisoned for a decade: attending a high school book club coordinated and sponsored by his teacher. 

Purchase: Amazon – Bookshop

The Boy From Clearwater

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