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The Next 25

The 2010 Core

Graphic Novels List

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Reference Works/Books About Comics

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The Adventures of Tintin
by Herge
ISBN: 978-0316359405
Little Brown

Alan’s War
by Emmanuel Guibert
ISBN: 978-1596430969
First Second

 

American Splendor
by Harvey Pekar
ISBN: 978-0345468307
Ballantine Books

 
 
American Widow
by Alissa Torres and Sungyoon Choi
ISBN: 978-0345500694
Villard

 

Black Hole
by Charles Burns
ISBN: 978-0375714726
Pantheon

 
 

Collected Essex County
by Jeff Lemire
ISBN: 978-1603090384
Top Shelf Productions

The Contract with God Trilogy
by Will Eisner
ISBN: 978-0393061055
W.W. Norton

The Dark Knight Returns
by Frank Miller
ISBN: 978-1563893421
DC Comics


David Boring
by Daniel Clowes
ISBN: 978-0375714528
Pantheon


The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
by Alison Bechdel
ISBN: 978-0618968800
Houghton Mifflin

 

Epileptic
by David B.
ISBN: 978-0375714689
Pantheon

 

Far Arden
by Kevin Cannon
ISBN: 978-1603090363
Top Shelf Productions

Footnotes in Gaza
by Joe Sacco
ISBN: 978-0805092776
Metropolitan Books


Ghost World
by Daniel Clowe
ISBN: 978-1560974277
Fantagraphics Books


Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
by Chris Ware
ISBN: 978-0224063975
Jonathan Cape



 

Our Cancer Year
by Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, and Frank Stack
ISBN: 978-1568580111
Running Press

 

The Photographer
by Emmanuel Guibert and Didier Lefevre
ISBN: 978-1596433755
First Second

 

The Preacher Series
by Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, et al.
ISBN: 978-1563892615
Vertigo


Queen & Country Series
by Greg Rucka, et al.
ISBN: 978-1929998210
Oni Press
 
 

Safe Area Gorazde
by Joe Sacco
ISBN: 978-1560974703
Fantagraphics Books

 

Stitches
by David Small
ISBN: 978-0393068573
W.W. Norton

 

Strangers in Paradise
by Terry Moore
ISBN: 978-1892597267
Abstract Studios

 

V for Vendetta
by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
ISBN: 978-1401208417
Vertigo

 

Y, the Last Man
by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra
ISBN: 978-1401218133
Vertigo

 

You’ll Never Know
by C. Tyler
ISBN: 978-1606991442
Fantagraphics Books

 
 


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