swap_horiz Anya's Ghost Alternatives

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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

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

Palomar (Heartbreak Soup)

Palomar is a fictional Central American town created by Gilbert Hernandez in the 1980s, serving as the influential setti...

Magical Realism Literary Fantagraphics Latinx

9.2 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

7

Swamp Thing (Alan Moore)

A defining 1980s horror comic run by Alan Moore that redefined the titular character as an elemental entity, introducing...

Horror Environment 1980S DC Vertigo

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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Kampung Boy

An autobiographical graphic novel by Lat depicting childhood in a Malaysian village, one of Malaysia's most beloved and...

Coming Of Age Memoir Malaysian First Second

8.3 Great

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Skim

Skim is a 2008 Canadian graphic novel by cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, examining adolescent angst, sexuality, and d...

Teen Lgbtq+ Diary Mariko Tamaki

8.0 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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Wytches

Created by Scott Snyder and Jock in 2014, this horror comic series follows a family that moves to a rural town stalked b...

Family Horror Witches Image Comics

8.0 Great

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Skim (Jillian & Mariko Tamaki)

Created by cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki in 2008, this coming-of-age graphic novel follows a Japanese-Canadian teena...

Canada Teen Lgbtq+ Drawn And Quarterly

8.0 Great

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Town Boy

The sequel to Lat's Kampung Boy, continuing his autobiographical account of adolescence in a Malaysian town and his grow...

Coming Of Age Memoir Malaysian First Second

8.0 Great

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Deadly Class

Deadly Class is an Image Comics series by Rick Remender following a homeless teenager enrolled in a secret high school f...

1980S Teen Assassin Image Comics

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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SuperMutant Magic Academy

Created by Jillian Tamaki and published in 2015, this satirical graphic novel explores mutant and magical teenagers navi...

School Slice Of Life Teen Drawn And Quarterly

7.7 Good

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Nailbiter

A horror comic series created by Joshua Williamson and Mike Henderson in 2014, centered on an FBI agent investigating a...

Horror Small Town Serial Killer Image Comics

7.5 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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Skim (first entry removed, adding new)

A coming-of-age graphic novel by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki about a teenage girl navigating friendship, love, and identit...

Teen Lgbtq+ Diary Mariko Tamaki

7.0 Good