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Build your taste profile and get better suggestions. You've rated 0 of 22 books. Want more suggestions? Launch Quick Rate- Watchmen
By Alan Moore, 1987
ISBN 1401219268
This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin.
- V for Vendetta
By Alan Moore, 1982
ISBN 140120841X
V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic-book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s about the 1990s. A mysterious revolutionary who calls himself "V" works to destroy the totalitarian government, profoundly...
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
By Frank Miller, 1997
ISBN 1563893428
If any comic has a claim to have truly reinvigorated the genre, then The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller--known also for his excellent Sin City series and his superb rendering of the blind superhero Daredevil--is probably the top contender. Batman represented all that was wrong in comics and...
- Batman: The Killing Joke
By Alan Moore, 1988
ISBN 1401216676
One of the most famous Batman stories of all time is offered for the first time in hardcover in this special twentieth-anniversary edition. This is the unforgettable that forever changed Batman's world, adding a new element of darkness with its unflinching portrayal of The Joker's twisted...
- Batman: Year One
By Frank Miller, 2007
ISBN 1401207529
A young Bruce Wayne has spent his adolescence and early adulthood, traveling the world so he could hone his body and mind into the perfect fighting and investigative machine. But now as he returns to Gotham City, he must find a way to focus his passion and bring justice to his city.
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1
By Alan Moore,
ISBN 1563898586
Proving that mainstream comics could be infused with past literary/cultural ideals and still be bestsellers, the America's Best Comics imprint took the dilapidated superhero genre and created three vastly entertaining hybrids with Tom Strong, Promethea and Top Ten.
- The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes
By Neil Gaiman, 1993
ISBN 1563890119
"Wake up, sir. We're here." It's a simple enough opening line--althoughnot many would have guessed back in 1991 that this would lead to one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comics of the second half of the century. In Preludes and Nocturnes, Neil Gaiman weaves the story of a man...
- Astonishing X-Men Vol. 1: Gifted
By Joss Whedon, 2004
ISBN 0785115315
Dream-team creators Joss Whedon (TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and John Cassaday (Planetary, Captain America) present the explosive, all-new flagship X-Men series - marking a return to classic greatness and the beginning of a brand-new era for the X-Men! Cyclops and Emma Frost re-form the X-Men...
- Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
By Art Spiegelman, 1986
ISBN 0394747232
A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself.
- Ghost World
By Daniel Clowes, 2001
ISBN 1560974273
Dan Clowes described the story in Ghost World as the examination of the lives of two recent high school graduates from the advantaged perch of a constant and (mostly) undetectable eavesdropper, with the shaky detachment of a scientist who has grown fond of the prize microbes in his petri dish.
- From Hell
By Alan Moore, 2000
ISBN 0958578346
FROM HELL is the story of Jack the Ripper, perhaps the most infamous man in the annals of murder. Detailing the events leading up to the Whitechapel killings and the cover-up that followed, FROM HELL is a meditation on the mind of a madman whose savagery and violence gave birth to the 20th century.
- Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
By Art Spiegelman, 1992
ISBN 0679729771
MAUS was the first half of the tale of survival of the author's parents, charting their desperate progress from prewar Poland Auschwitz. Here is the continuation, in which the father survives the camp and is at last reunited with his wife.
- Y: The Last Man Vol 1: Unmanned
By Brian K. Vaughan, 2003
ISBN 1563899809
Yorick Brown is an escape artist; has a fabulous girlfriend who's traveling in Australia; and possesses a genetic make-up that's allowed him to survive a plague that killed every male being on the planet except for him and his pet monkey. Yorick is the last man on earth, and in the resulting chaos...
- The Complete Persepolis
By Marjane Satrapi, 2007
ISBN 0375714839
Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing...
- Death: The High Cost of Living
By Neil Gaiman, 1994
ISBN 1563891336
One day in every century, Death walks the Earth to better understand those to whom she will be the final visitor. Today is that day. As a young mortal girl named Didi, Death befriends a teenager and helps a 250-year old homeless woman find her missing heart. What follows is a sincere musing on...
- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
By Marjane Satrapi, 2004
ISBN 037571457X
In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq.
- Blankets
By Craig Thompson, 2003
ISBN 1891830430
At 592 pages, Blankets may well be the single largest graphic novel ever published without being serialized first. Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two...
- Black Hole
By Charles Burns, 2008
ISBN 0375714723
Set in the 1970's, Black Hole immerses the reader in the world of a twisted and horrific mutating disease that is plaguing the teens of suburban Seattle. You experience the tales of many characters; some infected, some "clean" and some who become infected as you journey through their vivid tales of...
- The Arrival
By Shaun Tan, 2007
ISBN 0439895294
This is the story of the strangeness that an immigrant encounters no matter where he moves: there are barriers of language, food, and finding work; there is loneliness, isolation, and longing for loved ones. But at every turn, there are those who will help, and those who have their own stories of...
- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
By Alison Bechdel, 2007
ISBN 0618871713
In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking...
- Stitches
By David Small, 2009
ISBN 0393068579
The prize-winning children’s author depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir. One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched...
- Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
By Apostolos Doxiadis, 2009
ISBN 1596914521
An innovative, dramatic graphic novel about the treacherous pursuit of the foundations of mathematics. This exceptional graphic novel recounts the spiritual odyssey of philosopher Bertrand Russell. In his agonized search for absolute truth, Russell crosses paths with legendary thinkers like Gottlob...
