Lists and Suggestions
List: Eisner Award-Winning Graphic Novels
My Favorite Thing is Monsters. Book one
Ferris, Emil, author, illustrator.
"Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, and narrated by 10-ye...

This One Summer
Tamaki, Mariko, author.
Rose and her parents have been going to Awago Beach since she was a little girl. It's her summe...

Wonder Woman: the True Amazon
Thompson, Jill, 1966- author, illustrator.
"[A] Princess Diana unlike any we've seen before. As a child, she is spoiled and free to e...
Boundless
Tamaki, Jillian, 1980- author, illustrator.
"A woman post-breakup becomes obsessed with the "mirror Facebook" of herself-seeing a...
Demon
Shiga, Jason
"No matter how hard he tries, Jimmy Yee cannot die. A noose around his neck, a razor across his...
Ruins
Kuper, Peter
"Samantha and George are a couple heading towards a sabbatical year in the quaint Mexican town ...
Nimona
Stevenson, Noelle, author, illustrator.
"Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart...
The Property
Modan, Rutu.
TV producer Mica Segal accompanies her grandmother, Regina, on the old lady's first return to W...
Building Stories
Ware, Chris, 1967-
Presents an illustrated tale, told in various books and folded sheets, about the residents in a thre...
King City
Graham, Brandon.
Joe is a young man with no home, no purpose, and almost no friends ... though he does have a very sp...

Jim Henson
P�rez, Ram�n,
An original graphic novel adaptation of an unproduced, feature-length screenplay follows scruffy eve...
Wilson
Clowes, Daniel.
In the first all-new graphic novel from one of the leading cartoonists of our time, Clowes ("Gh...
Asterios Polyp
Mazzucchelli, David.
Asterios Polyp, its arrogant, prickly protagonist, is an award-winning architect who's never bu...

Exit Wounds
Modan, Rutu.
Set in modern-day Tel Aviv, a young man, Koby Franco receives an urgent phone call from a female sol...
American Born Chinese
Yang, Gene Luen.
Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to partic...
Top 10: The Forty-Niners
Moore, Alan,
This is the tale of Neopolis, a modern metropolis with a citizenry made up exclusively of super bein...
Black Hole
Burns, Charles,
From one of the most fiercely admired graphic artists at work today comes a gothic masterpiece of ex...
The Originals
Gibbons, Dave,
THE ORIGINALS follows two best friends, Lel and Bok, as they join the ultimate in-crowd: a glamorous...
Blankets
Thompson, Craig,
At 592 pages, Blankets may well be the single largest graphic novel ever published without being ser...

One Hundred Demons
Barry, Lynda,
Buddhism teaches that each person must overcome 100 demons in a lifetime. In One Hundred Demons, a c...
Safe Area Gorazde
Sacco, Joe.
The winner of the 2001 Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Album. Sacco spent five months in Bosnia in...
Fax from Sarajevo
Kubert, Joe,
In 1945, we told the world, "Never again". In 1992, the promise was broken into bloody sha...

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
Ware, Chris,
This first book from Chicago author Chris Ware is a pleasantly-decorated view at a lonely and emotio...

Stuck Rubber Baby
Cruse, Howard.
As Toland Polk, a citizen of the small southern town of Clayfield in the 1960s, fights for civil rig...
The Tale of One Bad Rat
Talbot, Bryan.
The victim of child sexual abuse, Helen Potter becomes the armored knight before her own personal de...
A Small Killing
Moore, Alan,
One of the classic Alan Moore works is finally back in print with totally re-mastered artwork and le...

Signal to Noise
Gaiman, Neil.
A film director is dying of cancer. His greatest film would have told the story of a European villag...

Sin City: The Hard Goodbye
Miller, Frank, 1957-
It's a lousy room in a lousy part of a lousy town. But Marv doesn't care. There's an ...

Maus II
Spiegelman, Art.
Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph" and a "brutally moving work of art," the first vo...

Sandman: The Doll
Gaiman, Neil.
In the dream world of the Sandman, Rose Walker encounters many bizarre things in the doll's hou...
Watchmen
Moore, Alan,
This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plag...