Read Asterix the Gaul

A six-year-old and his tiger, ten years of strips and Spaceman Spiff.

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

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

John Difool, a class-R detective, and a crystal that can save the universe; Moebius and Jodorowsky.

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

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

Jack the Ripper as a royal conspiracy, with 40 pages of footnotes; Moore and Campbell's Victorian London.

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