


Books in series

#2
Street Angel #2
2004

#5
Street Angel #5
2005
Orphaned by the world, raised by the streets, Jesse Sanchez is a dangerous martial artist, and the world's greatest homeless skateboarder. In Wilkesborough, Angel City's worst ghetto, she fights ninjas, drugs, nepotism, and pre-algebra as Street Angel!
The only thing standing between an army of heavily-armed racists and the 1970s-era blaxploitation superhero, Afrodisiac, is Jesse "Street Angel" Sanchez. It's "Hero Time!"

#6
Street Angel
After School Kung Fu Special
2017
Jesse "Street Angel" Sanchez takes the Ninja Kid to school! Her fists are the facts and his face is the report card! Don't miss this very special After School Kung Fu, er, uh...Special?
Meanwhile, Saturday night's the big dance and Jesse doesn't want to go! Is love in the air? No.

#7
Street Angel Gang
2017
What if Kal El had been found by the Warriors instead of the Kents? The deadliest girl alive accidentally joins a super violent street gang. Are the Bleeders the family Jesse never had, or is Jesse the child they never wanted? What?
Free snacks at the gang tryout party! Also, SCANDAL— - one of the Bleeders is a spy!

#8
Street Angel
Superhero For A Day
2017
Jesse 'Street Angel' Sanchez is the deadliest girl alive - a teenage homeless orphan skateboarder, fighting ninjas and trying to pass 7th grade!
Jesse knows the pressures of being the girl who always saves the day and she's okay with it. It's just who she is. But when she and her friends stumble across a powerful alien artifact - they soon realize that being a superhero isn't all fun and games.
Is this an alien plot to destroy their friendship or will Jesse hock the artifact for a couple of hot dogs?
This series of album-sized graphic novels featuring everybody's favorite skateboarding teenage homeless orphan are not to be missed! Brian K. Vaughan (SAGA, PAPER GIRLS), Jeff Smith (Bone, RASL), Hope Larson (Four Points, A Wrinkle in Time, Goldie Vance), Eleanor Davis (How to Be Happy, Libby's Dad) and Cecil Castellucci (Shade, The Changing Girl) all agree: Jesse "Street Angel" Sanchez is THE COOLEST!
PRAISE FOR STREET ANGEL:
"Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca's STREET ANGEL stars my favorite comic-book hero of the 21st century, and features some of the coolest artwork I've ever seen." —Brian K. Vaughan
"Jesse Sanchez is my new favorite comic book character. Great middle school dialogue and the battle scenes will blow your mind!"
\-Jeff Smith (Bone, RASL, Tuki)
"Jesse, a.k.a. Street Angel is a rare gem in the male-dominated world of comic book characters. When you finally find a comic book hero that is female, skateboards, and kicks ass, that's when you know young girls out there now have a strong super hero to follow. STREET ANGEL shows girls that they can be anything they want to be, including someone who saves the world and fights injustices, one bad guy at a time. She also defies female stereotypes right and left, and that is pretty darn cool."
\-Cindy Whitehead, founder of Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word
"STREET ANGELl remains as charming, inventive, and pitch-perfect as it was in the beginning. An indie-comics classic!"
\-Hope Larson (Compass South, Batgirl)
"I thought I didn't like comics about kicking ass, but it turns out I REALLY like comics where the ass-kicker is a 7 year old girl. A+++ more ass-kicking please."
\-Eleanor Davis (Libby's Dad, How to Be Happy)
"With great style and flair, Rugg delivers another stellar story of the ever-sassy Jesse Sanchez a.k.a. Street Angel. Jam-packed with tween angst, humor, action, and fun, this book is a must-read for the rebel set."
\-Cecil Castellucci (Shade, the Changing Girl, The PLAIN Janes)
"STREET ANGEL pulsates with danger!"
\-Wendi Freeman, Double Page Spread podcast

#9
Street Angel Goes to Juvie
2018
Busted! Jesse 'Street Angel' Sanchez, aka Shiraz Thunderbird, gets pinched and must do a stretch in Angel City's infamous juvenile corrections center, Alcatraz, Jr. For the Deadliest Girl Alive, 3 squares a day and a warm, dry bed ain't all bad. Jesse meets a girl gang, besties a superhero sidekick, pushes the lunch lady to the limit, and watches Harriet the Spy! Will juvie break our hero or will "Shiraz Thunderbird" break OUT of Alcatraz, Jr.?

#1-5
Street Angel
The Princess of Poverty
2004
After 13 years on the streets of the grim, impoverished ghetto of Wilkesborough, Jesse Sanchez knows how to take care of herself even if she can't always take a bath. With dazzling martial artistry, peerless skateboarding skills, and questionable study habits, Jesse "Street Angel" Sanchez faces ninja street gangs, evil geologists, Satan worshippers, and anything else that threatens the sanctity of her 'hood. In the tradition of Harry Potter, Bruce Wayne, Annie, and Oliver Twist, make way for fiction's latest orphan superstar, Street Angel. She doesn't have much, but she'll defend it for all she's worth. This collection contains the first five issues of the critically-acclaimed underground series, a previously unpublished story, new squid battles, profiles of some of the most beloved characters, an introduction by Evan Dorkin, and an all-star pinup gallery featuring: Jeffrey Brown, Farel Dalrymple, Jesse Farrell, Richard Hahn, Dean Haspiel, Mike Hawthorne, Paul Hornshemeier, Dave Kiersh, Pat Lewis, Jasen Lex, Andy Macdonald, Jim Mahfood, Ted May, Scott Mills, Scott Morse, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Lark Pien, Ed Piskor, Brian Ralph, Zack Soto, Lauren Weinstein, and Dan Zettwoch.

#6-11
Street Angel
Deadliest Girl Alive
2019
Jesse "Street Angel" Sanchez is a homeless ninja girl on a skateboard! In-between kicking ass and taking sandwiches - she fights bullies, street gangs, ninjas, the man, cocky superheroes, hunger, and the ninja industrial complex. She also rescues a stray dog, makes weird new friends, and saves Christmas!?! This collection includes all of Street Angel's Image Comics adventures plus a couple of extra stories and behind-the-scenes materials.
Collects STREET AFTER SCHOOL KUNG FU SPECIAL, THE STREET ANGEL GANG, STREET SUPER HERO FOR A DAY, STREET ANGEL GOES TO JUVIE, STREET ANGEL VS NINJATECH, STREET ANGEL'S DOG, XMAS SPECIAL, GHOST MONSTER
Authors

Jim Rugg
Author · 12 books
Jim Rugg is an Eisner and Ignatz Award-winning cartoonist based in Pittsburgh. His books include STREET ANGEL, The PLAIN Janes, The Guild, Afrodisiac, and Notebook Drawings. Awards and recognition from the Society of Illustrators, AIGA, Communication Arts, Print magazine, American Illustration, SPX, and Creative Quarterly adorn his mantle. His studio is pencils, paper, ballpoint pens, ink, Photoshop, cats, and comics.