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Taking Turns by MK Czerwiec (Adjunct Professor, Creative Writing / Artist-in-Residence, Columbia College Chicago / Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £17.32Fear of contagion, isolated patients, a surge of overwhelming and unpreventable deaths, and the frontline healthcare workers who shouldered the responsibility of seeing us through a deadly epidemic:... -
Menopause by MK Czerwiec (Adjunct Professor, Creative Writing / Artist-in-Residence, Columbia College Chicago / Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £20.51Hot flashes. Vaginal atrophy. Social stigma. The comics in this unapologetic anthology prove that when it comes to menopause and its attendant symptoms, no one needs to sweat it alone. Featuring... -
Dirty Biology by Leo Grasset
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £13.60What is sex? Has it always existed? What purpose does it serve? Why are there penises and vaginas? These questions are at the very core of Dirty Biology, an erudite (and hilarious) graphic novel... -
Hakim's Odyssey: Book 1: From Syria to Turkey Fabien Toulme 9781637790007
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £20.03A remarkable recounting of a human journey through an inhumane world.What does it mean to be a "refugee"? It is easy for those who live in relative freedom to ignore or even to villainize people who... -
Down to the Bone by Catherine Pioli
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £18.12When Catherine is diagnosed with acute leukemia, a deadly form of cancer that attacks the immune system, her life is turned upside down. Young and previously healthy, she now finds herself catapulted... -
Hakim's Odyssey: Book 2: From Turkey to Greece Fabien Toulme 9781637790083
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £20.51What choices would you make to reunite your family?"You know, Haidi, we're going on a trip. A really big trip to find our way to Mama."In exile and far from his homeland, Hakim finds a bit of hope in... -
Hakim's Odyssey: Book 3: From Macedonia to France Fabien Toulme 9781637790311
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £20.51The end of a journey, the beginning of a new life.-I'm Syrian, and I got here from Turkey.-Whoaaa! That's a hell of a trip!-You could say that . . . I left home almost three years ago.After being... -
6,000 Miles to Freedom by Stephane Marchetti
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £18.15Two boys. One war-torn country. A world away, freedom.Twelve-year-old Adel and his cousin Shafi try to lead a normal childhood in war-torn Afghanistan. But when Adel's father dies, everything changes... -
Bald by Tereza Cechova
RRP: £18.95SciFier: £14.35Tereza never thought she would go bald before her boyfriend did. She couldn't imagine being unable to sweep her hair up in a ponytail or to style it in other ways. But when she lost all her hair in... -
The Parakeet by Espe
RRP: £18.95SciFier: £17.95Bastien is eight years old, and his mother is ill. She often has what his father and grandparents call "episodes." She screams and fights, scratches and spits, and has to be carted away to... -
Jacob's Apartment by Joshua Kemble
RRP: £18.95SciFier: £14.35Some questions can shake even the strongest faith.At first glance, college roommates Jacob and Sarah seem like polar opposites. Jacob is a Christian; Sarah is an atheist. Sarah is a drinker, and... -
The Pass by Espe
RRP: £18.95SciFier: £17.19The only way out is through.Camille and Bastien are overjoyed at the birth of their second child. But their happiness is short-lived. Soon after Louis is born, he is diagnosed with severe heart... -
Iranian Love Stories by Jane Deuxard
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £17.32Gila, 26, was at a party when the police showed up. The men were able to get away with bribes, but the women were taken to the station, and anyone who'd been drinking was forced to submit to a... -
I Don't Want to Be a Mom by Irene Olmo
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £13.60What does choice really mean for a woman?In I Don't Want to Be a Mom, Irene Olmo recounts her coming-of-age transformation from assuming she will one day start a family to realizing that she just... -
Gay Mormon Dad Chad Anderson 9781637790984
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £14.09All his life, Chad Anderson was told he was broken. He believed with all his heart that being a good Mormon would make him straight, because that is what was promised. Chad followed the prescribed... -
Whatever Happened to Frankie King by Jay Neugeboren
RRP: £18.95SciFier: £14.35Frankie King was a precocious student and a promising basketball player at Brooklyn's James Madison High School in the early 1950s. Sportswriters were comparing Frankie to the greatest college and... -
COVID Chronicles by Kendra Boileau (Penn State Press)
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £17.32In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world to its knees. When we weren't sheltering in place, we were advised to wear masks, wash our hands, and practice social distancing. We watched in horror... -
Crude by Pablo Fajardo
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £15.91Oil waste was everywhere-on the roads, in the rivers where they fished, and in the water that they used for bathing, cooking, and washing. Children became sick and died, cases of stomach cancer... -
Good Girls Go to Hell Tohar Sherman-Friedman 9781637790601
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £20.33This was the last day I prayed.A coming-of-age graphic memoir set in the West Bank, Good Girls Go to Hell depicts the reality of growing up in a region split by religious tensions-and sometimes... -
Shrink by Rachel M. Thomas
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £16.62Fat girl problems.Derided by her high-school peers for being overweight, Rachel finally found a sense of purpose and belonging in a promising career as an EMT-that is, until her body got in the way... -
Bipolar Bear and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Health Insurance: A Fable for Grownups Kathleen Founds 9781637790359
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £16.62The system isn't broken, Mr. Nibbles. It was designed this way.Theodore is a bear with wild mood swings. When he is up, he carves epic poetry into tree trunks. When he is down, he paints sad faces on... -
The Mare by Seth C. Martel
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £15.98While she battles her own demons during the day, Indigo's nights are haunted by something much darker. Everyone else may be enjoying the summer, but Indigo's life isn't going so well. Her dad's... -
Lebanon Is Burning and Other Dispatches by Yazan Al-Saadi
RRP: £18.95SciFier: £14.35Voices from the Middle East on the fight for self-determination.Much of the present discourse about the pro-democracy Arab uprisings of 2011 paints a bleak picture of their defeat. But the truth is... -
Nuking Alaska by Peter Dunlap-Shohl
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £13.60As if, in midcentury Alaska, you needed more ways to die.From the creator of the critically acclaimed graphic novel My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson's comes an unnervingly funny tale of... -
The Body Factory by Heloise Chochois
RRP: £15.95SciFier: £13.61A young man has a horrible motorcycle accident. He wakes up in the hospital to discover that one of his arms has been amputated. Then a portrait on the wall of his hospital room begins to speak to... -
Heartcore by Stepanka Jislova
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.63Where does love come from?What is at the core of romantic attachment? Does our upbringing play a part, or is falling in love a magical, uncontrollable process? Are we doomed to repeat the same... -
Traces of Madness by Fernando Balius
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £13.60"I'm a grown man, but I don't feel it."Fernando Balius was a perfectly ordinary, self-absorbed, and misunderstood teenager. But before he turned twenty, he started hearing voices. After a number of... -
And Mankind Created the Gods by Joseph Behe
RRP: £33.95SciFier: £25.08Why does religion exist?Why do people believe?Do all religions start with the same basic idea?These are some of the most fundamental and enduring questions we have about the mysteries of religion,... -
Infected for Science Sydney Halpern 9781637790991
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.86While World War II was still raging, David Miller and a group of conscientious objectors volunteered for US government-sponsored experiments that deliberately exposed them to hepatitis. As study... -
Eventually Everything Connects by Sarah Firth
RRP: £18.95SciFier: £15.05Joyous musings on the meaningful and the mundane for troubled times. In her debut graphic novel, Sarah Firth ponders some of life's deepest philosophical questions: Why are we here? How are we... -
Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir Maureen Burdock 9781637790366
RRP: £21.95SciFier: £17.37Home is not a place you can reach by train or plane. It's something you carry with you. Uprooted from her childhood in Germany and set adrift in the American Midwest, Maureen was raised by a kind but... -
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
RRP: £18.95SciFier: £14.35The sea that calls all things unto her calls me, and I must embark.One of the best known and most translated works of free-verse poetry ever published in the English language, The Prophet, by... -
The Flavors of Iraq: Impressions of My Vanished Homeland Feurat Alani 9781637790670
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £13.60The Western media largely glossed over the immense human suffering that occurred in Iraq during the embargo of the 1990s and the Iraq War. With this innovative and award-winning graphic novel,... -
Sleepless Planet: A Graphic Guide to Healing from Insomnia Maureen Burdock 9781637790939
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.12Insomnia is a sleep disorder that affects roughly one in four people in the industrialized world. Typical treatments are often ineffective and have undesirable side effects. For those of us yearning... -
Graphic Medicine Manifesto: Tenth-Anniversary Edition MK Czerwiec (Adjunct Professor, Creative Writing / Artist-in-Residence, Columbia College Chicago / Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine) 9780271100449
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.64A decade ago, Graphic Medicine Manifesto established a bold new framework for understanding the intersection of comics and healthcare. It was a call to action-an invitation to rethink the ways we... -
Escaping Wars and Waves: Encounters with Syrian Refugees Olivier Kugler 9781637790632
RRP: £15.95SciFier: £14.73From the front lines of the Syrian refugee crisis.While on assignment between 2013 and 2017, often for Doctors Without Borders, Olivier Kugler interviewed and photographed Syrian refugees and their...