Derf Backderf’s The Dissidents: Autocrats! Vigilantes! Communists! And Cartoonists! follows a group of influential political cartoonists and journalists who pushed back against a corrupt administration to defend free speech. Indicted for sedition and facing 20-year sentences, they document a country spiraling into darkness in this gripping, layered, and perceptive American story. In Nate Powell’s Diana: The Punk Singer Who Ripped Through Time; An LGBTQ+ Graphic Novel, it’s 1992, and with her platinum hair, studies of the occult, angel voice, and domination of the local punk scene, Diana Bogue’s personality is way too big for her small Arkansas town. Still, she struggles with a repressive religious past. Will music and homegrown sorcery help her outrun reality? Joining Backderf and Powell is Charles Kochman, editor-in-chief of Abrams ComicArts.

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