Read The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

Charlie Brown, Snoopy and fifty years of small despair; start with the 1950s.

A village of indomitable Gauls, a magic potion and Romans to thump; the first of thirty-nine.

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

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

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

Four stories of a Bronx tenement; Will Eisner coined the term graphic novel for it.

Tintin searches the Himalayas for Chang after a plane crash; Herge's own favourite, without a villain.

Tintin in 1930s Shanghai against opium smugglers and the Japanese occupation; the album where Herge did his research.