Read From Hell

A masked anarchist against a fascist Britain of the 1990s; the Guy Fawkes mask comes from here.

Retired vigilantes in a 1985 with Nixon still president; the graphic novel that made comics grow up.

The Joker's possible origin and Barbara Gordon shot; one bad day.

Harari's human story redrawn as a comic; the same argument in pictures.

Spiegelman's father in Auschwitz, Jews as mice and Nazis as cats; the only comic with a Pulitzer.

Joe Sacco in Gaza and the West Bank in 1991; comics journalism begins.

Sacco in a Bosnian enclave during the war; the second reportage comic.

John Lewis's civil rights years, from Nashville lunch counters to Selma, in three books.