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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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Brief Lives (Sandman Vol. 7)

The seventh volume of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, following Dream and Delirium's search for their missing brother Dest...

Fantasy Mythology Road Trip Neil Gaiman

9.0 Excellent

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Bone: Out from Boneville

The first volume of Jeff Smith's epic fantasy comic series following the Bone cousins' exile from Boneville into a myste...

Fantasy Classic Scholastic All Ages

8.8 Great

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Fables

Created by Bill Willingham in 2002, this DC/Vertigo comic series follows fairy tale characters living secretly in modern...

Fantasy Mature Fairy Tale DC Vertigo

8.4 Great

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El Deafo

El Deafo is a 2014 autobiographical graphic novel by Cece Bell that explores her childhood experiences with hearing loss...

Hearing Loss Memoir Middle Grade Cece Bell

8.3 Great

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The Book of Magic

Published by DC Comics in 1990, this supernatural comic series by Neil Gaiman follows a young boy destined to become the...

Fantasy Coming Of Age Magic Neil Gaiman

8.3 Great

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Hey Kiddo

A graphic memoir by Jarrett J. Krosoczka about being raised by grandparents due to his mother's heroin addiction, a 2018...

Family Memoir Middle Grade Jarrett J Krosoczka

8.3 Great

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Smile

Smile is an autobiographical graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier chronicling her dental struggles and social anxieties dur...

Memoir Scholastic Raina Telgemeier Middle Grade

8.2 Great

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New Kid

New Kid is a 2019 middle-grade graphic novel by Jerry Craft that won the Newbery Medal, depicting a Black student's life...

School Race Middle Grade Jerry Craft

8.1 Great

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Seconds (Bryan Lee O'Malley)

Created by Bryan Lee O'Malley in 2014, this fantasy graphic novel follows a young chef who discovers a magical way to re...

Fantasy Time Loop Romance Bryan Lee Omalley

8.0 Great

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When Stars Are Scattered

A graphic novel by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed recounting Mohamed's childhood as a Somali refugee in a Kenyan ref...

Refugee Middle Grade Victoria Jamieson Dial Books

8.0 Great

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Displacement

A graphic novel by Kiku Hughes about a biracial teenager who time-travels to experience her grandmother's WWII Japanese...

Time Travel Young Adult Scholastic Kiku Hughes

7.8 Good

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Drama

Drama is a 2012 young adult graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier that follows a middle school theater crew navigating crush...

Theater Lgbtq+ Scholastic Raina Telgemeier

7.7 Good

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Roller Girl

Roller Girl is a 2015 graphic novel by Victoria Jamieson about a tween girl who joins a roller derby league while naviga...

Friendship Derby Middle Grade Victoria Jamieson

7.7 Good

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Pretty Deadly

Pretty Deadly is a mythic Western comic series by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Ríos that blends folklore with violent, s...

Fantasy Western Mythic Image Comics

7.5 Good

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Guts

Guts is a 2019 autobiographical graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier detailing her childhood struggles with anxiety and a p...

Anxiety Memoir Scholastic Raina Telgemeier

7.5 Good

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Ether

Written by Matt Kindt with art by David Rubin, this 2016 fantasy comic follows a scientist who travels to a magical real...

Fantasy Sci Fi Portal Dark Horse

7.2 Good