swap_horiz Kampung Boy Alternatives

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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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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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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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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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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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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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This One Summer

This One Summer is a 2014 graphic novel by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki, notable for its poignant depiction of adole...

Coming Of Age Young Adult Summer Mariko Tamaki

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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Anya's Ghost

Anya's Ghost is a 2011 young adult graphic novel by Vera Brosgol about a Russian-American girl who befriends a manipulat...

Ghost Horror Teen First Second

7.8 Good

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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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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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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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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

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Girl in Landscape

A science fiction coming-of-age graphic novel about a young girl whose family settles on an alien frontier planet, explo...

Sci Fi Coming Of Age Novel Literary

6.5 Fair