Robbins, Trina

A chronicle of the contributions women have made in the male-dominated world of cartooning.

Required to attend summer school after moving to Chicagoland, thirteen-year-old manga-lover Megan Yamamura needs help from twelve-year-old computer genius Raf to escape the maniacal principal's mind-control experiment.

Profiles leading females in the history of cartooning from 1896 through the present, providing information about their lives, careers, and cartoons.

Chronicles the history of girl comics from the forgotten artists of the 1940s through the outrageous characters of the 1990s.

An account of how Hedy Lamarr, an actress who escaped Germany and her weapons-dealing husband in the years leading up to World War II to live and work in the U.S., invented a device designed to keep enemy troops from blocking torpedo targeting signals. Presented in graphic format.

A graphic novel biography of Lily Ren?ee Wilheim, who, at fourteen years old, was forced to travel alone from Austria to England to escape the Nazis and faced servitude, hardship, and danger before becoming a pioneer of the comic book genre.

Raf, Megan, and talking-dog pal Bradley are abducted by aliens from the planet Fnarf III, where dogs are in charge and people are pets, to help locate the missing Princess Zu-La.

Ousted from Stepford Prep, Megan attends a prospective students event with friend Raf and talking dog Bradley at Pine Lake Academy, where Raf is possessed by the spirit of a teenaged girl from the 1910s after drinking from an old water fountain.