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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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Transmetropolitan

Transmetropolitan is a cyberpunk comic series by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson featuring Gonzo journalist Spider Jer...

Satire Journalism Cyberpunk Warren Ellis

8.9 Great

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The Arab of the Future

Created by French cartoonist Riad Sattouf in 2014, this autobiographical graphic novel series chronicles the author's ch...

Memoir Childhood Metropolitan Books Riad Sattouf

8.9 Great

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The Photographer

The Photographer is a 2009 graphic memoir by Emmanuel Guibert and Didier Lefèvre documenting a 1986 Doctors Without Bord...

Memoir Mixed Media Afghanistan First Second

8.7 Great

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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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Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City

Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City is a 2011 travelogue by Guy Delisle that details his complex everyday experienc...

Travel Memoir Drawn And Quarterly Guy Delisle

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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Alan's War

Alan's War is a 2008 biographical graphic novel by French artist Emmanuel Guibert illustrating the World War II experien...

World War Ii Biography Memoir First Second

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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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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El Deafo

El Deafo is a 2014 autobiographical graphic novel by Cece Bell that explores her childhood experiences with hearing loss...

Hearing Loss Memoir Middle Grade Cece Bell

8.3 Great

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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

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Pyongyang

Pyongyang is a 2003 graphic travelogue by Canadian cartoonist Guy Delisle detailing his observations of daily life while...

Travel Memoir North Korea Drawn And Quarterly

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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Hey Kiddo

A graphic memoir by Jarrett J. Krosoczka about being raised by grandparents due to his mother's heroin addiction, a 2018...

Family Memoir Middle Grade Jarrett J Krosoczka

8.3 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

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Smile

Smile is an autobiographical graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier chronicling her dental struggles and social anxieties dur...

Memoir Scholastic Raina Telgemeier Middle Grade

8.2 Great

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In the Shadow of No Towers

A 2004 comic strip collection by Art Spiegelman reflecting his personal trauma and political anxiety following the Septe...

Political Memoir Pantheon Art Spiegelman

8.1 Great