Description
In which a queer library worker searches for love, artistic validation in New YorkCity, and the perfect book
An aspiring cartoonist and book lovin' lesbian, Louise works a dead-end day job at a shoe store, where she spends most of her time brooding over a coworker who will never quite love her back. By night, she works diligently and obsessively on her graphic novel--the true story of a carrier pigeon who rescued a battalion of soldiers in WWI. When Louise unexpectedly lands a new job at a private library on the Upper East Side, she feels like her graphic novel will finally take off--surely the oldest library in New York has excellent holdings on pigeons and WWI. But what she finds in the stacks might be less revelatory than her discoveries between the sheets and buried in her own family history. A graphic novel set against a perfectly cartoony NYC backdrop--complete with landmark haunts, street fashion, and quintessential characters of the city--Checked Out is at once a valentine to libraries and New York, and the story of an artist working to make her dreams come true. Drawn in a delightfully vivacious style, Checked Out buzzes with Katie Fricas's vibrant energy, quick wit, and storytelling aplomb.Author: Katie Fricas
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Published: 05/20/2025
Pages: 356
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.02lbs
Size: 8.67h x 7.52w x 0.83d
ISBN13: 9781770467811
ISBN10: 1770467815
BISAC Categories:
- Comics & Graphic Novels | LGBTQ+ | General
About the Author
Katie Fricas is a cartoonist and editor in New York City. Her comics have been in the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, and The New Yorker, as well as various anthologies. Checked Out is her first book.