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All the Feels: 10 Social-Emotional Learning Comics for Kids and Tweens

Sep 25, 2024 | bookriot.com | Rosena Fung |Rachel Brian |Jason Reynolds |Megan Mabee

Weirdo by Tony Weaver, Jr.Eleven-year-old Tony Weaver, Jr. loves comic books, anime, and video games, and idolizes the heroic, larger-than-life characters he finds there. But his new classmates all think he’s a weirdo. Bullied by his peers, Tony struggles with the hurt of not being accepted and tries to conform to other people's expectations. After a traumatic event shakes him to his core, he embarks on a journey of self love that will require him to become the hero of his own story.
In Age 16, Rosena Fung grapples with intergenerational trauma.

May 15, 2024 | quillandquire.com | Inderjit Deogun |Annick Press |Rosena Fung

Rosena Fung has been drawing and making comics since as early as she can remember – Grade 1, to be precise. She read the Archie Comics she inherited from her mom voraciously and knew immediately that “this is all I want to read and do.” In fact, it was her dream to be an artist for Archie Comics. But Fung’s path wasn’t linear. Social and family expectations coupled with personal pressures had Fung second-guess the viability of being an artist.
Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire

Apr 18, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Paula Yoo |Rosena Fung |Andrea Lynn |Britta Teckentrup

Via vivid prose, Yoo (From a Whisper to a Rally) depicts the events surrounding the acquittal of the four police officers who brutalized Black motorist Rodney King in 1992 L.A. By centering the violent attempted arrest of Black 21-year-old Marquette Frye in 1965, the author contextualizes the history of the LAPD’s racist policing and emphasizes how incidents such as King’s were not isolated.
Age 16

Apr 18, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Rosena Fung |Paula Yoo |Andrea Lynn |Britta Teckentrup

Rosena Fung. Annick, $24.99 (312p) ISBN 978-1-77321-833-5; $17.99 paper ISBN 978-1-77321-834-2Using alternating POVs set in three timelines, Fung (Living with Viola) crafts a poignant tale of generational strife, rebellion, and self-acceptance, inspired by the creator’s family history. In 2000 Toronto—rendered in bright fuchsia hues—Chinese Canadian 16-year-old Roz wants to be thin.