swap_horiz Drama 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

The Dark Knight Returns

The Dark Knight Returns is a 1986 graphic novel by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson, depicting an older Batman coming out o...

Dystopian 1980S DC Comics Batman

9.2 Excellent

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Fun Home

Fun Home is a 2006 graphic memoir by American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, exploring her complex relationship with her fat...

Family Lgbtq+ Memoir Autobiographical

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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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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Stuck Rubber Baby

Stuck Rubber Baby is a 1995 graphic novel by Howard Cruse exploring the intersecting struggles of homophobia and racism...

Lgbtq+ Memoir Civil Rights DC Vertigo

8.3 Great

10

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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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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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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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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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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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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Amulet

Amulet is an ongoing fantasy graphic novel series created by Kazu Kibuishi in 2008, following two siblings who discover...

Fantasy Adventure Scholastic Middle Grade

7.5 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