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Black Hole
by Charles Burns  
Powells.com Staff Pick Winner of the comics industry's trifecta -- the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Awards -- Black Hole is a riveting, nightmarish, sometimes ghoulishly funny allegory for the horror of adolescence and our collective terror of sexuality and our own bodies...
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Maus, A Survivor's Tale, Book I: My Father Bleeds History
by Art Spiegelman
Powells.com Staff Pick Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities — the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman's...
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Persepolis 2 : Story of a Return (04 Edition)
by Marjane Satrapi
Powells.com Staff Pick I must admit I read this, the second installment of Satrapi's illustrated autobiography, before reading the first. Without the full premise of how she left her native country of Iran for Europe, it was easy to think that I had found a interesting...
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
Powells.com Staff Pick Alison Bechdel, creator of the Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip, uses the cartoon form to tell the story of her coming out and the discovery of her father's sexual orientation. The title refers to the funeral home where she grew up, and her parents...
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Jimmy Corrigan : the Smartest Kid on Earth (00 Edition)
by Chris Ware
Powells.com Staff Pick Brightly and beautifully designed, this "comic book" is encyclopedic, dense eye-candy illustrating an oppressively sad story of injury and loneliness. Ware's book is a semi-autobiographical account of his first contact with the father who...
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The Sandman #01: Preludes and Nocturnes
by Neil Gaiman
Powells.com Staff Pick The pinnacle of pop comix storytelling. These beautifully written stories, astonishing in their scope and emotional depth, revolutionized the comics industry. Together the initial ten volumes of Gaiman's epic comprise one of the greatest narratives in...
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Maus, A Survivor's Tale II: And Here My Troubles Began
by Art Spiegelman
Powells.com Staff Pick Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities — the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman's...
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Moomin Book One: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip
by Tove Jansson
Powells.com Staff Pick Tove Jansson, a Finnish author and illustrator, drew these comics for the Onday Evening News in the 1950s. Many people know and love her books, but have never seen these amazing comics. Thanks to Drawn & Quarterly, now's your chance! Perfect for both...
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American Born Chinese (06 Edition)
by Gene Luen Yang
Powells.com Staff Pick For the winter holidays try American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Chang. This quirky book is a fabulous introduction to the new generation of graphic novels, and blends folklore with an exploration of racial stereotyping and the "right stuff" of America...
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Promethea: Volume 1
by Alan Moore
Powells.com Staff Pick What mad genius hides behind the moniker Alan Moore? For those unfamiliar with his work, Alan Moore made comic books "respectable" in the mid-80's with his landmark graphic novel Watchmen, introducing dark themes and intellectualism to a medium...
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Blankets: An Illustrated Novel
by Craig Thompson
Powells.com Staff Pick One of Mike H.'s Top Five picks for 2004. To read more staff Top Five lists click here....
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The Sandman #03: Dream Country
by Neil Gaiman
Powells.com Staff Pick The pinnacle of pop comix storytelling. These beautifully written stories, astonishing in their scope and emotional depth, revolutionized the comics industry. Together the initial ten volumes of Gaiman's epic comprise one of the greatest narratives in...
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Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories
by Ben Katchor
Powells.com Staff Pick "A great collection of poignant cartoon vignettes of another time." Recommended by Carole Reichstein...
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Watchmen
by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Powells.com Staff Pick To call Watchmen a graphic novel is to not understand the complexities of its story. Watchmen is a dark, brooding novel, full of unrelenting characters, a bitter sense of humor, and a cynical worldview It's just a coincidence that it is a novel...
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The Sandman, Volume 4: Season of Mists
by Neil Gaiman
Powells.com Staff Pick The pinnacle of pop comix storytelling. These beautifully written stories, astonishing in their scope and emotional depth, revolutionized the comics industry. Together the initial ten volumes of Gaiman's epic comprise one of the greatest narratives in...
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Hellboy #02: Wake the Devil 2nd Edition
by Mike Mignola
Powells.com Staff Pick Part Gothic horror, part slam-bang superhero histrionics, Hellboy is a sometimes-unwieldy hybrid. When it hits the mark — most often in the short stories collected in The Chained Coffin and The Right Hand of Doom — the series achieves the...
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The Best American Comics 2007
by Chris Ware
Powells.com Staff Pick Chris Ware's choices in this collection are eclectic and inclusive of different generations of art-comics. From the Kramers Ergot selections that push the edge of cartooning to Crumb, Gilbert Hernandez, the ever-popular Ivan Brunetti, Lynda Barry, and...
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Moomin Book Two: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip
by Tove Jansson
Powells.com Staff Pick My favorite continuing-story comic strip is being reprinted in its entirety, and volume two suggests that the five planned installments will just get better and better. In theory, the ecstatically dizzy plots would try the reader's patience, but in...
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Runaways #02: Teenage Wasteland
by Brian K. Vaughn and Adrian Alpona and Craig Yeung
Powells.com Staff Pick Mutant children, alien children — what difference does it make when your parents are evil and you are trying to figure out how to be heroes? Brian Vaughan's inimitable series is perfect for readers of the graphic persuasion (and readers who never...
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The Sandman #02: The Doll's House
by Neil Gaiman and Mike Dringenberg
Powells.com Staff Pick The pinnacle of pop comix storytelling. These beautifully written stories, astonishing in their scope and emotional depth, revolutionized the comics industry. Together the initial ten volumes of Gaiman's epic comprise one of the greatest narratives in...
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