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

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

Lyra, her daemon and armoured bears in an Oxford that is not ours; His Dark Materials begins.

A 15-year-old with Asperger's investigates a dead poodle and finds out about his mother.

Two teenagers with cancer fall in love and fly to Amsterdam to meet an author.

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

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.