The Expanded List: 100 More
The 2010 Core
Graphic Novels List
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Abstract Comics
by Andrei Molotiu
ISBN: 978-1606991572
Fantagraphics Books
A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge
by Josh Neufeld
ISBN: 978-0307378149
Pantheon
The Achewood Series
by Chris Onstad
ISBN: 978-1593079970
Dark Horse
The Air Series
by G. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker
ISBN: 978-1401221539
Vertigo
The Alcoholic
by Jonathan Ames and Dean Haspiel
ISBN: 978-1401210564
Vertigo
Alec: The Years Have Pants
by Eddie Campbell
ISBN: 978-1603090254
Top Shelf Productions
All Star Superman
by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
ISBN: 978-1401211028
DC Comics
Arkham Asylum
by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean
ISBN: 978-1401204259
DC Comics
The Arrival
by Shaun Tan
ISBN: 978-0439895293
Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic
The Authority Series
by Warren Ellis
ISBN: 978-1563896613
Wildstorm
Ball Peen Hammer
by Adam Rapp and George O’Connor
ISBN: 978-1596433007
First Second
Batman: The Long Halloween
by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale
ISBN: 978-1563894695
DC Comics
Bayou
by Jeremy Love
ISBN: 978-1401223823
Zuda
The Beanworld Series
by Larry Marder
ISBN: 978-1595822406
Dark Horse
The Big Kahn
by Neil Kleid and Nicholas Cinquegrani
ISBN: 978-1561635610
NBM
Billy the Kid’s Old-Timey Oddities
by Eric Powell and Kyle Hotz
ISBN: 978-1593074487
Dark Horse
Bob Dylan Revisited
by various
ISBN: 978-0393076172
W.W. Norton
The Boys Series
by Garth Ennis, et al.
ISBN: 978-1606900963
Dynamite Entertainment
The B.P.R.D. Series
by Mike Mignola, et al.
ISBN: 978-1593072803
Dark Horse
The Bronx Kill
by Peter Milligan and James Romberger
ISBN: 978-1401211554
Vertigo
Cairo
by G. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker
ISBN: 978-1401217341
Vertigo
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species
by Michael Keller and Nicole Rager Fuller
ISBN: 978-1605296975
Rodale
The Chew Series
by John Layman and Rob Guillory
ISBN: 978-1607061595
Image
The Chill
by Jason Starr and Mick Bertilorenzi
ISBN: 978-1401212865
Vertigo
The Color Trilogy (Earth, Water, Heaven)
by Dong Hwa Kim
ISBN: 1596434589
First Second
The Complete Peanuts
by Charles Schulz
ISBN: 978-1606992876
Fantagraphics
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
by Bill Watterson
ISBN: 978-0740748479
Andrews McMeel
The Complete Bloom County
by Berkeley Breathed
ISBN: 978-1600105319
IDW
The Concrete Series
by Paul Chadwick
ISBN: 978-1593073435
Dark Horse
Criminal
by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
ISBN: 978-0785142294
Marvel
Crisis on Infinite Earths
by Marv Wolfman and George Perez
ISBN: 978-1563897504
DC Comics
DAR, Vol. 1 and 2
by Erika Moen
ISBN: 978-0982343708
DAR Comics
The Dark Tower Series
by Stephen King, Peter David, Robin Furth, Richard Isanove, and Jae Lee
ISBN: 978-0785129516
Marvel
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Phillip K. Dick, Tony Parker, and Bill Sienkiewicz
ISBN: 978-1608865000
Boom! Studios
The DMZ Series
by Brian Wood, Riccardo Burchielli, et al.
ISBN: 978-1401210625
Vertigo
Echo
by Terry Moore
ISBN: 978-1892597403
Abstract Studio
The Ex Machina Series
by Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris
ISBN: 978-1401206123
Wildstorm
The Fables Series
by Bill Willingham, et al.
ISBN: 978-1563899423
Vertigo
The Flight Anthologies
edited by Kazu Kibuishi
ISBN: 978-0345496362
Villard
French Milk
by Lucy Knisley
ISBN: 978-1416575344
Touchstone
From Hell
by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
ISBN: 978-0958578349
Top Shelf
George Sprott 1894–1975
by Seth
ISBN: 978-1897299517
Drawn & Quarterly
Goats: Infinite Typewriters
by Jonathan Rosenberg
ISBN: 978-0345510921
Del Rey
The Hellboy Series
by Mike Mignola, et al.
ISBN: 978-1593070946
Dark Horse
Identity Crisis
by Brad Meltzer and Rags Morales
ISBN: 978-1401204587
DC Comics
I Kill Giants
by Joe Kelly and J.M. Ken Niimura
ISBN: 978-1607060925
Image
I Killed Adolf Hitler
by Jason
ISBN: 978-1560978282
Fantagraphics
The Imposter’s Daughter
by Laurie Sandell
ISBN: 978-0316033060
Back Bay Books
Incognegro
by Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece
ISBN: 978-1401210984
Vertigo
Incognito
by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
ISBN: 978-0785139799
Marvel
It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken
by Seth
ISBN: 978-0224079181
Jonathan Cape
It Was the War of the Trenches
by Jacques Tardi
ISBN: 978-1606993538
Fantagraphics
Joe & Azat
by Jesse Lonergan
ISBN: 978-1561635702
NBM
The Joker
by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo
ISBN: 978-1401215811
DC Comics
The Killing Joke
by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland
ISBN: 978-1401216672
DC Comics
Kingdom Come
by Mark Waid and Alex Ross
ISBN: 978-1401220341
DC Comics
Kings in Disguise
by James Vance and Dan Burr
ISBN: 978-0393328486
W.W. Norton
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
ISBN: 978-1563898587
America’s Best Comics
Little Nothings
by Lewis Trondheim
ISBN: 978-1561635238
ComicsLit
Locke and Key
by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez
ISBN: 978-1600102370
IDW
Logicomix
by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos, and Annie Di Donna
ISBN: 978-1596914520
Bloomsbury
Lost Girls
by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie
ISBN: 978-1603090445
Top Shelf
The Love & Rockets Series
by Los Bros. Hernandez
ISBN: 978-1606993798
Fantagraphics
Luna Park
by Kevin Baker and Danijel Zezelj
ISBN: 978-1401224264
Vertigo
The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation
by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon
ISBN: 978-0809057399
Hill and Wang
The Nobody
by Jeff Lemire
ISBN: 978-1401220815
Vertigo
Nocturnal Conspiracies
by David B.
ISBN: 978-1561635412
ComicsLit
100 Bullets
by Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Risso, et al.
ISBN: 978-1563896453
Vertigo
The Original Johnson
by Trevor Von Eeden
ISBN: 978-1600106385
IDW
Pim and Francie
by Al Columbia
ISBN: 978-1606993040
Fantagraphics
Planetary
by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday
ISBN: 978-1563896484
Wildstorm
Pogo
by Walt Kelly
ISBN: 978-1560978695
Fantagraphics
The Powers Series
by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming
ISBN: 978-0785145936
Marvel
Pride of Baghdad
by Brian K. Vaughan
ISBN: 978-1401203153
Vertigo
Rasl
by Jeff Smith
ISBN: 978-1888963205
Cartoon Books
Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation
by Ray Bradbury and Tim Hamilton
ISBN: 978-0809051014
Hill and Wang
Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter
by Darwyn Cooke
ISBN: 978-1600104930
IDW
The Saga of Swamp Thing
by Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, and John Totleben
ISBN: 978-0930289225
Vertigo
The Scalped Series
by Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera
ISBN: 978-1401213176
Vertigo
The Sin City Series
by Frank Miller
ISBN: 978-1593072933
Dark Horse
Slow Storm
by Danica Novgorodoff
ISBN: 978-1596432505
First Second
Smile
by Raina Telgemeier
ISBN: 978-0545132060
Scholastic/Graphix
The Squirrel Machine
by Hans Rickheit
ISBN: 978-1606993019
Fantagraphics
The Surrogates/The Surrogates: Flesh and Bone
by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldale
ISBN: 978-1891830877
Top Shelf
Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays
edited by Brendan Burford
ISBN: 978-0345505293
Villard
The Tale of One Bad Rat
by Bryan Talbot
ISBN: 978-1595824936
Dark Horse
Tamara Drewe
by Posy Simmons
ISBN: 978-0547154121
Mariner Books
300
by Frank Miller
ISBN: 978-1569714027
Dark Horse
Three Shadows
by Cyril Pedrosa
ISBN: 978-1596432390
First Second
Too Cool to Be Forgotten
by Alex Robinson
ISBN: 978-1891830983
Top Shelf
The Transmetropolitan Series
by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
ISBN: 978-1401220846
Vertigo
The Umbrella Academy/The Umbrella Academy: Dallas
by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba
ISBN: 978-1595823458
Dark Horse
Unwritten
by Mike Carey and Peter Gross
ISBN: 978-1401225650
Vertigo
The Vietnam War: A Graphic History
by Dwight Jon Zimmerman, Chuck Horner, and Wayne Vansant
ISBN: 978-0809094950
Hill and Wang
The Walking Dead
by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, and Cliff Rathburn
ISBN: 978-1607060765
Image Comics
West Coast Blues
by Jean-Patrick Manchette and Jacques Tardi
ISBN: 978-1606992951
Fantagraphics
Why I Hate Saturn
by Kyle Baker
ISBN: 978-0930289720
Vertigo
Why I Killed Peter
by Alfred and Olivier Ka
ISBN: 978-1561635436
NBM
X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga
by Chris Claremont and John Byrne
ISBN: 978-0785122135
Marvel
X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills
by Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson
ISBN: 978-0785127611
Marvel
Years of the Elephant
by Willy Linthout
ISBN: 978-8492444304
Fanfare/Ponent Mon
You Are There
by Jean-Claude Forest and Jacques Tardi
ISBN: 978-1606992944
Fantagraphics
Zot! 1987-1991: The Complete Black and White Collection
by Scott McCloud
ISBN: 978-0061537271
HarperPaperbacks
Thanks, Torsten. Understanding Comics is in the Reference Works/Books About Comics section (the link is at the top of this page). And you're right, it's essential.
I hate to do this... this is such a great list... but...
Where's Understanding Comics?
So, if I must push out one title to make room for this, one of two GNs I recommend to ANYONE (Watchmen is the other)... I'd demote Genesis. (Yeah, it's Crumb, but is this the one title you'd pick of his to put in a time capsule?)
Maybe it will show up on the "Books About Comics" list, but if the purpose of the Top Ten is to list the stuff every store should carry, then it should be on that list, not segregated into some "other" category. And it IS a graphic novel about comics, not just a BOOK about comics.
(And no Feiffer? Tch tch...)