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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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Love & Rockets

Love & Rockets is an influential alternative comic book series created by the Hernandez brothers in 1981, renowned for i...

INDIE Slice Of Life Fantagraphics Los Bros Hernandez

9.1 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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Adolf

A critically acclaimed historical drama manga by Osamu Tezuka, published in the 1980s, exploring the intertwined lives o...

Drama Manga World War Ii Osamu Tezuka

8.9 Great

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Daytripper

Daytripper is a 2010 graphic novel by Brazilian twin brothers Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá that explores mortality through...

Literary DC Vertigo Fabio Moon Gabriel Ba

8.8 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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Building Stories

Building Stories is a 2012 graphic novel by American cartoonist Chris Ware, uniquely published as a boxed set of various...

Experimental Literary Pantheon Chris Ware

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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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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Black Hammer

A superhero comic series created by Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston in 2016, exploring a group of trapped heroes in a myste...

Literary Superhero Deconstruction Jeff Lemire

8.5 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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The Underwater Welder

A 2012 graphic novel by Jeff Lemire about a deep-sea diver facing supernatural occurrences and personal ghosts while wor...

Psychological Literary Fatherhood Shelf

8.4 Great

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Essex County

Essex County is a 2008 Canadian graphic novel by Jeff Lemire, collecting three interconnected stories that explore rural...

Canada Literary Rural Shelf

8.2 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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Ice Haven

Ice Haven is a 2005 graphic novel by Daniel Clowes that interweaves multiple character perspectives to portray a darkly...

Experimental Crime Literary Pantheon

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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George Sprott

Created by Canadian cartoonist Seth, this 2009 graphic novel pieces together the fragmented memories of an aging, fading...

Melancholy Literary Biography Drawn And Quarterly

8.0 Great

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Push (Sapphire)

Published in 1996 by Sapphire, this literary novel follows an abused, illiterate teenager in Harlem who struggles to imp...

Drama Sapphire Novel Literary

6.8 Fair