Marv hunts the men who killed Goldie; Miller's black-and-white noir.
Every male mammal dies except Yorick and his monkey; sixty issues of what comes next.
A chimpanzee who wants to be human and two scouts, from 1957; the longest-running Polish comic.
John Difool, a class-R detective, and a crystal that can save the universe; Moebius and Jodorowsky.
A Viking raised by Northmen, born of the stars; Rosinski's Polish-Belgian saga since 1977.
A village of indomitable Gauls, a magic potion and Romans to thump; the first of thirty-nine.
A town cursed by spirals; Junji Ito's horror masterpiece.
A boy with a chainsaw devil for a heart hunts devils for the government; Fujimoto's chaos.
Two brothers, a failed transmutation and a military state; Arakawa's tightly plotted twenty-seven volumes.
Snow White and the Big Bad Wolf in exile in New York; Willingham's fairy-tale noir.
Charlie Brown, Snoopy and fifty years of small despair; start with the 1950s.
Goku from a boy with a tail to the Saiyan wars; the manga every shonen descends from.
Luffy and the Straw Hats chase the One Piece across 100-plus volumes; the best-selling comic ever.
Two Slavic warriors defend the village of Mirmilowo against the Zbojcerze; Poland's Asterix.
Jack the Ripper as a royal conspiracy, with 40 pages of footnotes; Moore and Campbell's Victorian London.
Sacco in a Bosnian enclave during the war; the second reportage comic.
Alison Bechdel's father, a closeted funeral director, and her own coming out; the comic that became a musical.
A masked anarchist against a fascist Britain of the 1990s; the Guy Fawkes mask comes from here.
The Marvel universe seen from a photographer on the pavement; Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross.
A dystopian 2013 where Sentinels rule and Kitty Pryde goes back to stop it; Claremont and Byrne.
A Texas preacher possessed by a divine-demonic offspring goes looking for God, with a vampire.
Joe Sacco in Gaza and the West Bank in 1991; comics journalism begins.
Four stories of a Bronx tenement; Will Eisner coined the term graphic novel for it.
A demon raised by the army fights Rasputin and frog monsters; Mignola's shadows.
A sexually transmitted plague mutates 1970s Seattle teenagers; Charles Burns in ink black.
Spider Jerusalem, a Hunter Thompson of the future, against the City; Warren Ellis.
Bruce Wayne's first year and Jim Gordon's; Miller and Mazzucchelli's crime comic.
The Joker's possible origin and Barbara Gordon shot; one bad day.
Scott McCloud explains how comics work, as a comic; the textbook of the form.
Marjane Satrapi grows up through the Iranian revolution, in black and white.
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