The most banned book in America (about growing up LGBTQ+) is getting a new expanded edition

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A new expanded edition of Maia Kobabe’s award-winning graphic memoir “Gender Queer” will be released next year.Oni Press has announced that “Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition” will be available in May.

The special hardcover edition of the seminal LGBTQ+ coming of age memoir includes commentary by Kobabe as well as other comic creators and scholars.“For fans, educators, and anyone else who wants to know more, I am so excited to share ‘Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition,’” Kobabe said in the news release.

“Queer and trans cartoonists, comics scholars, and multiple people who appear in the book as characters contributed their thoughts, reactions, and notes to this new edition.” World & Nation Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir “Gender Queer” became the most banned book in American schools, drawing the Northern California artist and writer into the nation’s cultural wars.The new 280-page hardcover will feature “comments on the color design process, on comics craft, on family, on friendship, on the touchstone queer media that inspired me and countless other people searching for meaningful representation, and on the complicated process of self-discovery,” the author added.Released in 2019, “Gender Queer” follows Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, from childhood into eir young adult years as e navigates gender and sexuality and eir understanding of who e is.

The books is a candid look into the nonbinary author’s exploration of identity, chronicling the frustrations and joys and epiphanies of eir journey and self discovery.“It’s really hard to imagine yourself as something you’ve never seen,” Kobabe told The Times in 2022.

“I know this firsthand because I didn’t meet someone who was out as trans or nonbinary until I was in grad school.It’s weird to grow up and be 25 before you meet someone who is like the same gender as you.”S...