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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.

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

A demon raised by the army fights Rasputin and frog monsters; Mignola's shadows.

Rick Grimes wakes in a hospital to the zombie apocalypse; 193 issues in black and white.

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.