Graphic Novels
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Fun Home
Jonathan CapeBechdel's moving 'graphic autobiography' beautifully tells the story of her strange childhood and adolescence in the funeral home run by her father. -
Ghost World
Jonathan CapeThis is an examination of the lives of two recent high school graduates from the advantaged perch of a constant and undetectable eavesdropper, with the shaky detachment of a scientist who has grown fond of the prize microbes in his... -
Wilson
Jonathan CapeOnce again Daniel Clowes proves himself to be the master of the graphic novel and the celebrator of the loveable loser. -
Transmetropolitan
TitanAfter 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 Rime of the Modern Mariner
Jonathan CapeHow 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. -
Omega the Unknown
Marvel ComicsThe story of a mute, reluctant super hero from another planet, and the earthly teenager with whom he shares a strange destiny. -
TitanDave 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? -
Jamilti and Other Stories
Jonathan CapeStories that range from darkly fantastical and unsettling to surprising discoveries that shape personal identity. -
Watchmen
Titan BooksThis is the superlative post-modern superhero tale involving pulp noir, science, hubris, the Cold War, love, lust, craziness and pirates. -
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Knockabout ComicsThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is comics scriptwriting supremo Alan Moore's incredible, reinvention of classic heroes and villains. -
The Night Bookmobile
Jonathan CapeIn the early hours of a summer morning, a young woman encounters a mysterious mobile library while walking down an empty suburban street. -
Persepolis
VintagePersepolis 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. -
Maus
PenguinThis is the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. -
Alice in Sunderland
Jonathan CapeAlice 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... -
Tales From Outer Suburbia
TemplarThese 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. -
Shortcomings
FaberFaber reprints this gloriously arch and bittersweet graphic novel by Adrian Tomine, surely one of the biggest reasons to not dismiss graphic novels as worthy competitors in the sphere of literary fiction. -
Jimmy Corrigan:
Jonathan CapeThis extraordinary graphic novel is so obviously a labour of love that the reader can only marvel at the energy that has been expended in its creation. -
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
Andrews McMeelThe 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.
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