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The Arab of the Future

Created by French cartoonist Riad Sattouf in 2014, this autobiographical graphic novel series chronicles the author's ch...

Memoir Childhood Metropolitan Books Riad Sattouf

8.9 Great

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Clyde Fans

Created by Canadian cartoonist Seth, this literary graphic novel details the decades-long decline of a fictional oscilla...

Family Melancholy Literary Drawn And Quarterly

8.8 Great

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American Splendor

American Splendor is an autobiographical comic series created by Harvey Pekar in 1976, celebrated for its mundane yet pr...

Slice Of Life Memoir Working Class Dark Horse

8.6 Great

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It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken

Published in 1996 by Canadian cartoonist Seth, this graphic novel follows a man's obsessive search for an obscure mid-ce...

Nostalgia Literary Memoir Drawn And Quarterly

8.6 Great

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The Best We Could Do

A graphic memoir by Thi Bui tracing her family's flight from Vietnam as refugees and their resettlement in the United St...

Immigrant Vietnamese Memoir Thi Bui

8.5 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

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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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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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In the Shadow of No Towers

A 2004 comic strip collection by Art Spiegelman reflecting his personal trauma and political anxiety following the Septe...

Political Memoir Pantheon Art Spiegelman

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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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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Why I Killed Peter

Created by Olivier Ka and Alfred, this 2008 autobiographical graphic novel details the author's traumatic childhood expe...

French Memoir Religion Olivier Ka

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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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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War Is Boring

Published in 2010, this work of graphic journalism by David Axe and Matt Bors details the author's firsthand experiences...

Journalism War Memoir David Axe

7.5 Good