Read Maus

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

A boy in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, drawn by a survivor; the manga on the bomb.

Elie Wiesel at fifteen in Auschwitz and Buchenwald; a hundred pages that changed how the Holocaust is written.

Marjane Satrapi grows up through the Iranian revolution, in black and white.

Alison Bechdel's father, a closeted funeral director, and her own coming out; the comic that became a musical.

A first love and a fundamentalist childhood in a Wisconsin winter; Craig Thompson's 600 pages.

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

Jack the Ripper as a royal conspiracy, with 40 pages of footnotes; Moore and Campbell's Victorian London.