A six-year-old and his tiger, ten years of strips and Spaceman Spiff.
A Toronto slacker must defeat seven evil exes; O Malley's manga-styled indie epic.
Marv hunts the men who killed Goldie; Miller's black-and-white noir.
Rick Grimes wakes in a hospital to the zombie apocalypse; 193 issues in black and white.
Snow White and the Big Bad Wolf in exile in New York; Willingham's fairy-tale noir.
Every male mammal dies except Yorick and his monkey; sixty issues of what comes next.
Two soldiers from warring planets raise their daughter on the run; Vaughan and Staples.
Three cousins lost in a valley of dragons and rat creatures; a Disney-drawn Lord of the Rings.
Four stories of a Bronx tenement; Will Eisner coined the term graphic novel for it.
A sexually transmitted plague mutates 1970s Seattle teenagers; Charles Burns in ink black.
Enid and Rebecca after high school in a suburb of nowhere; Clowes' teenage bible.
A lonely man meets the father who abandoned him; Chris Ware's diagrams of sadness.
Scott McCloud explains how comics work, as a comic; the textbook of the form.
John Lewis's civil rights years, from Nashville lunch counters to Selma, in three books.
Sacco in a Bosnian enclave during the war; the second reportage comic.
Joe Sacco in Gaza and the West Bank in 1991; comics journalism begins.
A first love and a fundamentalist childhood in a Wisconsin winter; Craig Thompson's 600 pages.
Alison Bechdel's father, a closeted funeral director, and her own coming out; the comic that became a musical.
Marjane Satrapi grows up through the Iranian revolution, in black and white.
Spider Jerusalem, a Hunter Thompson of the future, against the City; Warren Ellis.
A Texas preacher possessed by a divine-demonic offspring goes looking for God, with a vampire.
Morpheus, lord of dreams, escapes seventy years of captivity; Gaiman's ten volumes of myth.
Jack the Ripper as a royal conspiracy, with 40 pages of footnotes; Moore and Campbell's Victorian London.
A masked anarchist against a fascist Britain of the 1990s; the Guy Fawkes mask comes from here.
A demon raised by the army fights Rasputin and frog monsters; Mignola's shadows.
A teenager gets his father's powers and learns what his father is; Kirkman's fifteen-year saga.
Kraven buries Spider-Man alive and takes his place; the darkest Spider-Man story.
A dystopian 2013 where Sentinels rule and Kitty Pryde goes back to stop it; Claremont and Byrne.
The Kingpin learns Daredevil's identity and takes everything apart; Miller and Mazzucchelli.
The Marvel universe seen from a photographer on the pavement; Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross.
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