Championess #[nn]

From Legendary Comics' YA imprint comes Championess, a period graphic novel by Tarun Shanker, Kelly Zekas, and Amanda Perez Puentes that looks as gritty and determined as its subject matter. The cover — rendered in stark grayscale with flashes of blood-red — places a fierce young woman center-stage inside a boxing ring, her fists raised and her bloodied corset speaking to the cost of her fight, while two onlookers flank her: a worried woman in a bonnet to her left and a watchful young man to her right. It's a striking, immediately compelling image that signals a story about a woman refusing to be counted out.