swap_horiz March (Trilogy) 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

6

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

7

Lone Wolf and Cub

Lone Wolf and Cub is a landmark samurai manga created by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima in 1970, following an assassin an...

Classic Manga Samurai Dark Horse

9.2 Excellent

8

Swamp Thing (Alan Moore)

A defining 1980s horror comic run by Alan Moore that redefined the titular character as an elemental entity, introducing...

Horror Environment 1980S DC Vertigo

9.2 Excellent

9

Batman: Year One

Batman: Year One is a 1987 graphic novel by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli that redefined the superhero's origin wi...

Origin Noir DC Comics Batman

9.1 Excellent

10

All-Star Superman

All-Star Superman is a 2005 comic series by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, widely celebrated as a definitive, modern...

Classic Optimistic DC Comics Superman

9.1 Excellent

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

Brief Lives (Sandman Vol. 7)

The seventh volume of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, following Dream and Delirium's search for their missing brother Dest...

Fantasy Mythology Road Trip Neil Gaiman

9.0 Excellent

15

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

16

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

17

X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills

A landmark 1982 Marvel graphic novel by Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson where the X-Men battle a televangelist who in...

Classic Marvel Civil Rights X Men

8.3 Great

18

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

19

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

20

Lost Girls

Lost Girls is a controversial 2006 erotic graphic novel by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie that reimagines the adult lives...

Fairy Tale Literary Erotic Shelf

7.7 Good