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After years of selfimposed exile from a civilization rife with degradation and indecency, cynical journalist Spider Jerusalem is forced to return to a job he hates and a city he loathes.

The perfect story to share with young people to explore themes of immigration, alienation and communication

Stories that range from darkly fantastical and unsettling to surprising discoveries that shape personal identity.

If William Burroughs wrote a graphic novel, it might look something like this. 

In this dark gothic fantasy, Salem must meet his guardian familiar, get help from some new friends and defeat mysterious dark forces.

This is the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe.

In the early hours of a summer morning, a young woman encounters a mysterious mobile library while walking down an empty suburban street.

This is the superlative post-modern superhero tale involving pulp noir, science, hubris, the Cold War, love, lust, craziness and pirates.

Books like this only come around rarely, and when they do, they deserve all of your attention.

Persepolis is Satrapi's history of Iran and her life in Iran and France as she tries to retain her Iranian culture but also grow up and become independent.

This is a captivating retelling of the Robin Hood story with punchy dialogue and suitably dark and atmospheric images.

Daniel Clowes’ latest exercise in dysfunctional love affairs smitten by misanthropy concerns the titular, Mister Wonderful, Marshall, a neurotic divorcee who goes on a first date, with the obvious ‘complications’ ensuing.

A pilot marooned in the desert is visited by a little prince, and they become friends. This is a lovely book for children and adults alike to keep and revisit time and time again.

This beautifully drawn book cleverly examines the intricacies and complications of friendship

Alice in Sunderland is a graphic novel like no other. Bryan Talbot takes the city of Sunderland and the story of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell (the ‘real’ Alice) as the spine of his story and around them spins a spectacularly diverse range of different stories.

When Adrian Tomine was asked by his wife-to-be to document the lead-up to their wedding in a comic book that would be given out as a party favour, he soon found himself with a fully-fledged graphic novel on his hands.

There are murder mysteries and there are murder mysteries, but this is a noir where nothing is black and white

The comic-strip adventures of Calvin, a naughty boy with a philosophical bent, and his soft toy tiger companion Hobbes, delighted readers from 1985 to 1995. 

Once again Daniel Clowes proves himself to be the master of the graphic novel and the celebrator of the loveable loser.

How to update Samuel Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner? By embarking on a mostly pictoral interpretation of the text and making it an allegorical treatise on environmental disaster, obviously.

The story of a mute, reluctant super hero from another planet, and the earthly teenager with whom he shares a strange destiny.

Set in modern Tokyo, with the Capulets and Montagues recast as organised-crime rivals, this racy retelling gets to the heart of the love story and the foolish rivalry that dooms it.

Dave Lizewski is just an ordinary American teenager. He has a MySpace page, he loves comic books, and he is unable to find a girlfriend. Then an idea hits him: why not become a real life super hero?

The new graphic novelist from Hannah Berry (trivia: she is Booktrust's writer in residence) takes her love of dark humour, les bandes dessinées and noir and twists them into a boiler room of a novel

These often thought-provoking stories look at the reactions ordinary people have to the unusual situations they find themselves in and feature a host of different illustrative styles ranging from collage to painterly Edward Hopper-esque scenes.

Scott Pilgrim's life is totally sweet. He's 23 years old, he's in a rock band, he's 'between jobs', and he's dating a cute high school girl. Nothing could possibly go wrong...

This unusual story of star-crossed teenage love is told visually, through a series of photographs, collages and scrapbook pages