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

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

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

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

Enid and Rebecca after high school in a suburb of nowhere; Clowes' teenage bible.

A sexually transmitted plague mutates 1970s Seattle teenagers; Charles Burns in ink black.

A Toronto slacker must defeat seven evil exes; O Malley's manga-styled indie epic.

Two boys at an English grammar school fall in love; the webcomic that became a Netflix series.