The 2010 Core

Graphic Novels List

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The Core Ten

American Born Chinese
by Gene Luen Yang
 
Asterios Polyp
by David Mazzucchelli
 
Blankets
by Craig Thompson
 
Bone
by Jeff Smith
 
The Book of Genesis Illustrated
by R. Crumb
 

Fun Home
by Alison Bechdel

The Complete Maus
by Art Spiegelman
 
The Complete Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
 
The Sandman Series
by Neil Gaiman, et al.
 
Watchmen
by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
 
 
The Next 25
The Adventures of Tintin
by Herge
 
Alan’s War
by Emmanuel Guibert
 
American Splendor
by Harvey Pekar
 
American Widow
by Alissa Torres and Sungyoon Choi
 
Black Hole
by Charles Burns
 

The Contract with God Trilogy
by Will Eisner

The Dark Knight Returns
by Frank Miller
 
David Boring
by Daniel Clowes
 
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
by Alison Bechdel
 
Epileptic
by David B.
 
The Complete Essex County
by Jeff Lemire
 
Far Arden
by Kevin Cannon
 

Footnotes in Gaza
by Joe Sacco

Ghost World
by Daniel Clowe
 
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
by Chris Ware
 

Our Cancer Year

by Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, and Frank Stack
 
The Photographer
by Emmanuel Guibert and Didier Lefevre
 
The Preacher Series
by Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, et al.

Queen & Country Series
by Greg Rucka, et al.
 

Safe Area Gorazde
by Joe Sacco
 
Stitches
by David Small
 
Strangers in Paradise
by Terry Moore
 
V for Vendetta
by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
 
Y, the Last Man
by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra
 
You’ll Never Know
by C. Tyler
 
 
 
 
The Expanded List: 100 More
 
Abstract Comics
by Andrei Molotiu
 
A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge
by Josh Neufeld
 
The Achewood Series
by Chris Onstad
 
The Air Series
by G. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker
 
The Alcoholic
by Jonathan Ames and Dean Haspiel
 
Alec: The Years Have Pants
by Eddie Campbell
 
All Star Superman
by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
 
Arkham Asylum
by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean
 
The Arrival
by Shaun Tan
 
The Authority Series
by Warren Ellis

Ball Peen Hammer
by Adam Rapp and George O’Connor
 
Batman: The Long Halloween
by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale
 
The Beanworld Series
by Larry Marder
 
The Big Kahn
by Neil Kleid and Nicholas Cinquegrani
 
Bayou
by Jeremy Love
 
Bob Dylan Revisited
by various
 
The Boys Series
by Garth Ennis, et al.
 
The B.P.R.D. Series
by Mike Mignola, et al.
 
The Bronx Kill
by Peter Milligan and James Romberger
 
Cairo
by G. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker
 
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species
by Michael Keller and Nicole Rager Fuller
 
The Chew Series
by John Layman and Rob Guillory

The Chill
by Jason Starr and Mick Bertilorenzi
 
The Color Trilogy (Earth, Water, Heaven)
by Dong Hwa Kim
 
The Complete Peanuts
by Charles Schulz
 
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
by Bill Watterson
 
The Complete Bloom County
by Berkeley Breathed
 
The Concrete Series
by Paul Chadwick
 
Criminal
by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
 
Crisis on Infinite Earths
by Marv Wolfman and George Perez
 
The Dark Tower Series
by Stephen King, Peter David, Robin Furth, Richard Isanove, and Jae Lee
 
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Phillip K. Dick, Tony Parker, and Bill Sienkiewicz
 
The DMZ Series
by Brian Wood, Riccardo Burchielli, et al.
 
Echo
by Terry Moore
 
The Ex Machina Series
by Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris
 
The Fables Series
by Bill Willingham, et al.
 
The Flight Anthologies
edited by Kazu Kibuishi
 
French Milk
by Lucy Knisley
 
From Hell
by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
 
George Sprott 1894–1975
by Seth
 
Goats: Infinite Typewriters
by Jonathan Rosenberg
 
The Hellboy Series
by Mike Mignola, et al.
 
Identity Crisis
by Brad Meltzer and Rags Morales
 
I Kill Giants
by Joe Kelly and J.M. Ken Niimura
 
I Killed Adolf Hitler
by Jason
 
The Imposter’s Daughter
by Laurie Sandell
 
Incognegro
by Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece
 
Incognito
by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
 
It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken
by Seth
 
It Was the War of the Trenches
by Jacques Tardi
 
Joe & Azat
by Jesse Lonergan
 
The Joker
by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo
 
The Killing Joke
by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland
 
Kingdom Come
by Mark Waid and Alex Ross
 

Kings in Disguise
by James Vance and Dan Burr
 
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
 
Little Nothings
by Lewis Trondheim
 
Locke and Key
by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez

Logicomix
by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos, and Annie Di Donna
 
Lost Girls
by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie
 
The Love & Rockets Series
by Los Bros. Hernandez
 
Luna Park
by Kevin Baker and Danijel Zezelj
 

The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation

by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon
 
The Nobody
by Jeff Lemire
 
Nocturnal Conspiracies
by David B.
 
100 Bullets
by Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Risso, et al.
 
The Original Johnson
by Trevor Von Eeden
 
Pim and Francie
by Al Columbia
 
Planetary
by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday
 
Pogo
by Walt Kelly
 
The Powers Series
by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming
 
Pride of Baghdad
by Brian K. Vaughan
 
Rasl
by Jeff Smith
 
Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation
by Ray Bradbury and Tim Hamilton
 
Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter
by Darwyn Cooke
 
The Saga of Swamp Thing
by Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, and John Totleben
 
The Scalped Series
by Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera

The Sin City Series
by Frank Miller

Slow Storm
by Danica Novgorodoff
 
Smile
by Raina Telgemeier
 
The Squirrel Machine
by Hans Rickheit
 
The Surrogates/The Surrogates: Flesh and Bone
by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldale
 
Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays
edited by Brendan Burford
 
The Tale of One Bad Rat
by Bryan Talbot
 
Tamara Drewe
by Posy Simmons
 
300
by Frank Miller
 
Too Cool to Be Forgotten
by Alex Robinson
 
The Transmetropolitan Series
by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
 
The Umbrella Academy/The Umbrella Academy: Dallas
by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba
 
Unwritten
by Mike Carey and Peter Gross
 
The Vietnam War: A Graphic History
by Dwight Jon Zimmerman, Chuck Horner, and Wayne Vansant
 
The Walking Dead
by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, and Cliff Rathburn
 
West Coast Blues
by Jean-Patrick Manchette and Jacques Tardi
 
Why I Hate Saturn
by Kyle Baker
 
Why I Killed Peter
by Alfred and Olivier Ka
 
X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills
by Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson
 
X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga
by Chris Claremont and John Byrne
 
Years of the Elephant
by Willy Linthout
 
You Are There
by Jean-Claude Forest and Jacques Tardi
 
Zot!
by Scott McCloud