Retired vigilantes in a 1985 with Nixon still president; the graphic novel that made comics grow up.
Harari's human story redrawn as a comic; the same argument in pictures.
John Lewis's civil rights years, from Nashville lunch counters to Selma, in three books.
Spiegelman's father in Auschwitz, Jews as mice and Nazis as cats; the only comic with a Pulitzer.
Enid and Rebecca after high school in a suburb of nowhere; Clowes' teenage bible.
Kraven buries Spider-Man alive and takes his place; the darkest Spider-Man story.
A lonely man meets the father who abandoned him; Chris Ware's diagrams of sadness.
Superman has a year to live and does twelve impossible things; Morrison and Quitely.
Morpheus, lord of dreams, escapes seventy years of captivity; Gaiman's ten volumes of myth.
An ageing Justice League returns to stop a new generation of reckless heroes; Alex Ross's paintings.
The Kingpin learns Daredevil's identity and takes everything apart; Miller and Mazzucchelli.
A first love and a fundamentalist childhood in a Wisconsin winter; Craig Thompson's 600 pages.
A 55-year-old Batman comes out of retirement to fight Superman; Frank Miller's 1986 reinvention.
A teenager gets his father's powers and learns what his father is; Kirkman's fifteen-year saga.
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