swap_horiz The Private Eye 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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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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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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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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

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Scalped

Scalped is a gritty, noir-infused crime series by Jason Aaron set on a fictional Native American reservation in South Da...

Crime Native American Noir DC Vertigo

8.9 Great

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Arzach

Arzach is a groundbreaking French comic by artist Moebius featuring a silent warrior riding a pterodactyl, renowned for...

Sci Fi Classic French Wordless

8.9 Great

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Blacksad

Blacksad is a noir comic series by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido featuring anthropomorphic characters solving cr...

Crime Anthropomorphic Noir 1950S

8.8 Great

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100 Bullets

A noir crime comic published by DC's Vertigo imprint from 1999 to 2009, created by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso, fo...

Crime Noir Conspiracy DC Vertigo

8.5 Great

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Pride of Baghdad

This 2006 graphic novel by Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon follows a pride of lions escaping the Baghdad Zoo during...

War Iraq Animals DC Vertigo

8.2 Great