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A very mixed bag of awesome comics/graphic novels!

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  Call Me Iggy is a sweet story of reconnecting with your history and culture.  Iggy is Columbian but his father has never talked much about his life in Columbia or ever gone back.  When he accidentally finds and opens his grandfather's urn, he brings his ghost to life, who begins to teach him.  There are fun and silly problems (generational and cultural causes) but also an awakening in Iggy to the parts of his culture he is missing....as well as the parts hidden, like the troubles of illegal immigrants.  This is set during the beginning of Trump's presidency, and the worries and struggles of the Latinx community are definitely discussed as Iggy finds the things he thought were true are actually not true for everyone.  Highly recommend this title. Cara Bean is an art teacher in a high school, who created this book in order to discuss and illuminate both the physical and emotional parts of mental health, as well as the differences between the things that are emotional and those