NPR's Let's Get Graphic: 100 Favorite Comics And Graphic Novels

Updated 8 months ago
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Graphic novel picks include fan favorites from Marvel and DC alongside indie creators in this list of 100 great comics as collected by NPR's Glen Weldon and Petra Mayer.

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Action Comics Jerry Siegel Don Cameron Otto Binder Jerry Coleman	4	2 reads
Akira Yoko Umezawa (Translator) Linda M. York (Translator) Jo Duffy (Translator) Katsuhiro Ōtomo	4.25	91 reads
All-Star Superman, Vol. 1 Frank Quitely Grant Morrison	4.02	61 reads
American Born Chinese Gene Luen Yang	3.9	120 reads
As the Crow Flies Melanie Gillman	3.42	17 reads
Astro city life in the big city Kurt Busiek	3.5	2 reads
Bitch Planet Volume 2 Kelly Sue DeConnick Valentine De Landro	4.47	18 reads
Black Panther, Vol. 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book One Ta-Nehisi Coates Stan Lee Laura Martin	3.7	14 reads
Blacksad Juan Díaz Canales	4.27	31 reads
Blankets Craig Thompson	4.03	202 reads
Bone, Vol. 3: Eyes of the Storm Jeff Smith	4.09	122 reads
Calvin and Hobbes Bill Watterson	4.77	113 reads
Carl Barks Walt Disney Company	0	0 reads
Castle Waiting Linda Medley	3.91	12 reads
Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey Ngozi Ukazu	4.19	67 reads
Come Over, Come Over Lynda Barry	5	2 reads
Contract with God Trilogy Will Eisner	4.5	5 reads
Daytripper Fábio Moon Gabriel Bá	4.25	99 reads
Doom Patrol, Vol. 4: Musclebound Grant Morrison	3.7	10 reads
El Deafo Cece Bell	4.03	41 reads
Finder: The Rescuers Carla Speed McNeil	0	1 read
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 25 Hiromu Arakawa Akira Watanabe (Translator)	4.54	15 reads
Fun home Alison Bechdel	4	223 reads
Geo Herriman's Krazy Ignatz: The Komplete Kat Komics, 1916 George Herriman	0	0 reads
Ghosts Raina Telgemeier	3.98	80 reads
Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 1 Inio Asano	4.28	48 reads
Gotham Central, Vol. 2: Half a Life Greg Rucka	4.33	7 reads
Gunnerkrigg Court, Volume 1: Orientation Thomas Siddell	3.67	8 reads
Hark! A Vagrant Kate Beaton	4.49	46 reads
Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon	4.26	97 reads
Hellboy, Vol. 7: The Troll Witch and Others Mike Mignola P. Craig Russell	3.6	11 reads
Here Richard McGuire	4.14	41 reads
Hip hop family tree Ed Piskor	0	0 reads
Homestuck Andrew Hussie	4.6	9 reads
How To Be Happy Eleanor Davis	3.78	12 reads
Kill 6 Billion Demons Tom Parkinson-Morgan	3.91	12 reads
Legends of Zita the Spacegirl Ben Hatke	4.17	10 reads
Leonard Starr's Mary Perkins On Stage Volume 1 Leonard Starr's Mary Perkins On Stage Volume 1 Leonard Starr	0	0 reads
Little Lulu, Volume 8: Late For School John Stanley Irving Tripp	0	0 reads
Locke & Key, Vol. 6: Alpha & Omega Joe Hill	4.54	89 reads
Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 1: The Assassin's Road Kazuo Koike	3.55	15 reads
Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 Gilbert Hernández Mario Hernández Jaime Hernández	0	2 reads
March John Lewis Andrew Aydin Nate Powell	4.5	3 reads
Maus: Un survivant raconte, tome 1: Mon père saigne l'histoire Art Spiegelman	4.53	316 reads
Megahex Simon Hanselmann	3.78	11 reads
Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening Marjorie M. Liu Sana Takeda	3.9	167 reads
More Dykes to Watch Out For Alison Bechdel	4.5	2 reads
Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard, Vol. 1 David Petersen	3.85	40 reads
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal G. Willow Wilson	4.09	138 reads
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 Emil Ferris	4.4	48 reads
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: The Complete Series David Lewis (Translator) Toren Smith (Translator)	4.72	12 reads
Nimona N.D. Stevenson	4.29	335 reads
Oh Joy Sex Toy Erika Moen	0	1 read
O Human Star, Volume One Blue Delliquanti	4.5	4 reads
One Piece, Vol. 6: The Oath Eiichiro Oda Naoko Amemiya (Translator)	4.17	59 reads
Peanuts Charles M. Schulz	4	1 read
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi Mattias Ripa (Translator)	4.34	304 reads
Planetary, Volume 1	3.87	35 reads
Pluto, 02 Naoki Urasawa Takashi Nagasaki	4.34	38 reads
Pogo Walt Kelly	0	0 reads
Rogue's Curse Wendy Pini Richard Pini Bern Harkins	4.5	5 reads
Saga, Book One	4.52	79 reads
Sex Criminals, Volume Three: Three the Hard Way Matt Fraction	3.57	17 reads
Shade, the Changing Man, Volume 1: The American Scream Peter Milligan	4	4 reads
Stand Still, Stay Silent Stand Still, Stay Silent: Book 1 Minna Sundberg	4	2 reads
Swamp Thing, Vol. 6: Reunion Alan Moore	4.26	33 reads
Sweet Tooth, Volume 1: Out of the Deep Woods	3.83	44 reads
The Absolute Sandman, Volume One	4.68	66 reads
The Acme Novelty Library #13 Chris Ware	4.04	38 reads
The Bloom County Library, Vol. 1: 1980-1982 Berkeley Breathed	4.67	4 reads
The Case of the Team Spirit John Allison	3.5	5 reads
The color of heaven Kim dong hwa Tong-hwa Kim	0	0 reads
The Encyclopedia of Early Earth Isabel Greenberg	3.86	17 reads
The Incal, Vol. 1 Alejandro Jodorowsky Mœbius	4	29 reads
The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal E.K. Weaver	4.5	2 reads
The Mad Archives Wallace Wood Will Elder Harvey Kurtzman John Severin Jerry DeFuccio	0	1 read
The Most Dangerous Game Zach Weinersmith	4.67	3 reads
The Nib #1 The Nib #1	0	0 reads
The Stonekeeper Kazu Kibuishi	3.65	87 reads
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 1: Squirrel Power	4.33	41 reads
The Vision Tom King	4.32	40 reads
The Walking Dead, Vol. 17: Something to Fear Robert Kirkman	4.11	25 reads
The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act Kieron Gillen	3.72	154 reads
Thimble Theater, Introducing Popeye E.C. Segar	0	0 reads
This One Summer Mariko Tamaki	3.54	138 reads
Through the Woods Emily Carroll	3.95	161 reads
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 0: Tales of Human Waste Warren Ellis	4.2	73 reads
Twentieth Century Eightball Daniel Clowes	3.67	5 reads
Understanding Comics Scott McCloud	4.29	140 reads
Usagi Yojimbo Stan Sakai	0	0 reads
Vattu Vattu Evan Dahm	4	1 read
Watchmen Alan Moore	4.45	870 reads
Whiteout Greg Rucka Steve Lieber	3.8	12 reads
Wondermark, Vol. 1: Beards of Our Forefathers David Malki	0	0 reads
X-Men Chris Claremont	0	1 read
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers Ben Passmore	4	2 reads