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

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

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

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

Three cousins lost in a valley of dragons and rat creatures; a Disney-drawn Lord of the Rings.

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

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

A 55-year-old Batman comes out of retirement to fight Superman; Frank Miller's 1986 reinvention.