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The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes is a seminal collection of comic strips created by Bill Watterson. It presents the imagin...

Classic All Ages Bill Watterson Andrews Mcmeel

9.7 Brilliant

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Sandman

The Sandman is a critically acclaimed graphic novel series by Neil Gaiman and Sam Kieth published by Vertigo Comics. It...

Fantasy Mythology DC Comics Neil Gaiman

9.5 Brilliant

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The Incal

The Incal is a seminal French sci-fi graphic novel by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius, following John DiFool in a surre...

Sci Fi French Jodorowsky Surreal

9.3 Excellent

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Phoenix (Hi no Tori)

Phoenix is a monumental, unfinished science fiction manga by Osamu Tezuka, started in 1954, exploring themes of reincarn...

Epic Manga Reincarnation Osamu Tezuka

9.3 Excellent

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Lone Wolf and Cub

Lone Wolf and Cub is a landmark samurai manga created by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima in 1970, following an assassin an...

Classic Manga Samurai Dark Horse

9.2 Excellent

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Ode to Kirihito

A dramatic medical thriller manga by Osamu Tezuka, serialized in 1970, following a brilliant doctor infected by a diseas...

Vertical Horror Manga Medical

8.9 Great

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Ooku: The Inner Chambers

Created by Fumi Yoshinaga in 2005, this Japanese alternate history manga explores a feudal era where a male-killing plag...

Manga Alternate History Gender Viz Media

8.9 Great

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Ping Pong (Taiyo Matsumoto)

A sports manga by Taiyo Matsumoto about two table tennis prodigies, acclaimed for its distinctive art style and award-wi...

Manga Coming Of Age Sports Viz Media

8.9 Great

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MW (Osamu Tezuka)

A psychological thriller manga by Osamu Tezuka about a priest and a sociopathic killer linked by a cover-up involving ch...

Vertical Psychological Manga Crime

8.5 Great

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Billy Bat

A mystery thriller manga by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki that spans multiple decades, investigating a comic bat sy...

Mystery Manga Conspiracy Naoki Urasawa

8.4 Great

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Strangers in Paradise

Strangers in Paradise is a long-running independent comic series by Terry Moore, published from 1993 to 2007, focusing o...

Drama INDIE Romance Terry Moore

8.1 Great

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Royal City

An independent comic series by Jeff Lemire launched in 2017 that follows a dysfunctional family haunted by their past in...

Ghost Drama Family Jeff Lemire

8.0 Great

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What a Wonderful World!

A collection of interconnected slice-of-life manga short stories by Inio Asano, exploring the everyday struggles of youn...

Manga Slice Of Life Anthology Viz Media

8.0 Great

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2001 Nights

A Japanese hard science fiction manga by Yukinobu Hoshino, serialized in the 1980s, depicting humanity's expansion into...

Sci Fi Space Manga Viz Media

7.9 Good

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The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service

Created by Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki, this Japanese horror manga follows Buddhist students who start a business tr...

Mystery Horror Manga Dark Horse

7.8 Good

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Biomega

A cyberpunk horror manga by Tsutomu Nihei published in 2004, featuring intense action as a lone agent fights a virus tha...

Sci Fi Manga Dystopian Viz Media

7.7 Good

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Almost American Girl

A graphic memoir by Robin Ha about her abrupt relocation from South Korea to Alabama as a teenager and her struggle to a...

Manga Memoir Harpercollins Robin Ha

7.7 Good

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MPD-Psycho

Created by Eiji Otsuka and Shou Tajima, this Japanese psychological horror manga follows a detective with multiple perso...

Horror Manga Crime Dark Horse

7.4 Good

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Mail Order Bride

Published in 2001 by Mark Kalesniko, this adult graphic novel examines a lonely man who orders a Russian bride, explorin...

Drama Immigrant Literary Fantagraphics

7.0 Good

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Push (Sapphire)

Published in 1996 by Sapphire, this literary novel follows an abused, illiterate teenager in Harlem who struggles to imp...

Drama Sapphire Novel Literary

6.8 Fair