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

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

Spielberg's own childhood, and the moment a camera becomes a way to see.

The aeronautical engineer who designed the Zero, and what his beautiful machines became.

The novelist takes on the Dreyfus affair; the first biopic to win.