In honor of Earth Day, we’ve gathered recommendations of comics and graphic novels that educate us and inspire us to make a positive impact on the Earth and its climate.
Planeta Blu: Rise of Agoo Volume 1 by Tem Blessed and Michael Laricca
After Lares, her brother Angel, and their friends Tomé and Tyler gain magical abilities, they stumble upon a looming war. The animal kingdom is ramping up to save the earth—”Planeta Blu”—by taking on the global climate crisis and fighting pollution at the source. One billionaire oil tycoon has sinister machinations at work, but the globe’s animals and a young team of humans will need to work together if they want to have any chance at saving our world!
It is now available to pre-order at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and at your local comic shop and bookstore.
Shifting Earthby Cecil Castellucci, Flavia Biondi, Fabiana Mascolo, and Steve Wands, edited by Karen Berger
In a not-so-distant future, a freak particle storm has landed botanist Dr. Maeve Lindholm on an idyllic yet strange parallel Earth, with no way back home. But just like her own climate-ravaged planet, this verdant Earth has a sinister side . . . which astronomer Zuzi battles every day. Both women are fighters, and both face a choice: forge new paths, or save the worlds they’ve always known?
Shifting Earth is now wherever books are sold.
Rewild by Devin Grayson, Yana Adamovic, and Sal Cipriano, edited by Karen Berger
Poe is a mysterious young homeless woman and self-proclaimed fairy changeling. Demond is an enterprising engineer with a troubled past. When Poe demands that a park be built to mollify a dangerous new mutation of mythical creatures, ravaged by climate change and furious with the human race, Demond must question not only his own sanity, but the rationality of our entire species as he struggles to save his city–and maybe even the world. But are we past the point of no return?
Rewild is available now wherever books are sold.
The Seeds by Ann Nocenti and David Aja, edited by Karen BergerThe bees are swarming. What do they know that we don’t?
In a broken-down world, a rebellious group of ruthless romantics have fled a tech-obsessed society to create their own& and a few cantankerous aliens have come to harvest the last seeds of humanity.
When one of them falls in love with a human, idealistic journalist Astra stumbles into the story of a lifetime, only to realize that if she reports it, she’ll destroy the last hope of a dying planet.
How far will she go for the truth?
The Seeds is available now wherever books are sold.
Climate Keepers: Agents of Project Zero by Nadia Shik, Caitlin Like, and Comicraft
Meet the “Climate Keepers”, a crew of young climate heroes who learn about environmental threats to their community and fight pollution together. This educational comic book is designed to help young people better understand the effects of climate change and explore ways to make a positive impact.
Now available to read digitally at Dark Horse Digital.
Source: Dark Horse
