swap_horiz Love & Rockets 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

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Maus

Maus is a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel by Art Spiegelman that depicts the Holocaust through the poignant metapho...

Holocaust Memoir Pulitzer Spiegelman

9.5 Brilliant

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Palomar (Heartbreak Soup)

Gilbert Hernandez’s Palomar is a graphic novel series presenting a richly detailed fictional town within Central America...

Magical Realism Literary Fantagraphics Latinx

9.2 Excellent

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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

Published in 2017 by Emil Ferris, this acclaimed mystery graphic novel follows a young girl in 1960s Chicago investigati...

Mystery 1960S Fantagraphics Emil Ferris

9.1 Excellent

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Safe Area Gorazde

Published in 2000 by Maltese-American cartoonist Joe Sacco, this graphic journalism work documents the brutal realities...

Journalism War Joe Sacco Fantagraphics

9.0 Excellent

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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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Safe Area Goražde

Safe Area Goražde is a 2000 graphic novel by Joe Sacco that utilizes his signature comics journalism to depict the bruta...

Journalism War Joe Sacco Fantagraphics

8.5 Great

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Solanin

Solanin is a 2005 coming-of-age manga by Inio Asano that portrays the aimlessness and struggles of recent college gradua...

Music Manga Slice Of Life Viz Media

8.4 Great

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Nijigahara Holograph

A surreal horror manga by Inio Asano that weaves together a nonlinear narrative of childhood trauma, collective guilt, a...

Manga Dark Surreal Fantagraphics

8.4 Great

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King City

Created by Brandon Graham, this 2007 sci-fi graphic novel follows a slacker thief and his genetically altered cat naviga...

Adventure Sci Fi INDIE Image Comics

8.4 Great

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Palestine

Palestine is a 2001 graphic novel by cartoonist Joe Sacco, notable for its pioneering use of comics journalism to explor...

Journalism Nonfiction Middle East Joe Sacco

8.3 Great

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Ho Che Anderson's King

Created by Ho Che Anderson, this biographical graphic novel chronicles the life and historical impact of civil rights le...

Biography Civil Rights Fantagraphics Ho Che Anderson

8.2 Great

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Strangers in Paradise

Strangers in Paradise is a long-running independent comic series by Terry Moore, published from 1993 to 2007, focusing o...

Drama INDIE Romance Terry Moore

8.1 Great

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Box Office Poison

Box Office Poison is a 1996 slice-of-life graphic novel by Alex Robinson chronicling the intertwined lives and careers o...

INDIE Romance Slice Of Life Shelf

8.0 Great

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What a Wonderful World!

A collection of interconnected slice-of-life manga short stories by Inio Asano, exploring the everyday struggles of youn...

Manga Slice Of Life Anthology Viz Media

8.0 Great

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Phonogram

Created by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, this urban fantasy comic explores the magical and cultural impact of pop mu...

Music INDIE Magic Image Comics

7.9 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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Multiple Warheads

Created by Brandon Graham, this fantasy comic series published by Oni Press follows an organ smuggler and a wolf-girl tr...

Sci Fi INDIE Quirky Image Comics

7.5 Good

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Tricked

Tricked is a 2005 graphic novel by Alex Robinson that won an Eisner Award, following the intersecting lives of six indiv...

INDIE Slice Of Life Ensemble Shelf

7.4 Good

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Mail Order Bride

Published in 2001 by Mark Kalesniko, this adult graphic novel examines a lonely man who orders a Russian bride, explorin...

Drama Immigrant Literary Fantagraphics

7.0 Good