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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

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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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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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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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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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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 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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Kampung Boy

An autobiographical graphic novel by Lat depicting childhood in a Malaysian village, one of Malaysia's most beloved and...

Coming Of Age Memoir Malaysian First Second

8.3 Great

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Hicksville

A metafictional graphic novel by New Zealand cartoonist Dylan Horrocks exploring the mythology and politics of comics th...

Meta New Zealand Drawn And Quarterly Dylan Horrocks

8.2 Great

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Skim

Skim is a 2008 Canadian graphic novel by cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, examining adolescent angst, sexuality, and d...

Teen Lgbtq+ Diary Mariko Tamaki

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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Skim (Jillian & Mariko Tamaki)

Created by cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki in 2008, this coming-of-age graphic novel follows a Japanese-Canadian teena...

Canada Teen Lgbtq+ Drawn And Quarterly

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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Displacement

A graphic novel by Kiku Hughes about a biracial teenager who time-travels to experience her grandmother's WWII Japanese...

Time Travel Young Adult Scholastic Kiku Hughes

7.8 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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Boundless

Published in 2017 by Jillian Tamaki, this anthology graphic novel collects short stories exploring modern anxieties, rel...

Experimental Literary Anthology Drawn And Quarterly

7.5 Good

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Skim (first entry removed, adding new)

A coming-of-age graphic novel by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki about a teenage girl navigating friendship, love, and identit...

Teen Lgbtq+ Diary Mariko Tamaki

7.0 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