Graphic Novels/Manga
Looking for a good manga or graphic novel? If so, try reading one of the following.
Graphic Novels…
Maus
Art Spiegelman
The story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. By addressing the Holocaust through cartoons the author captures the everyday reality of fear and the sensation of survival.
Shaun Tan
In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and his family.
Neil Gaiman
A rich blend of modern myth and dark fantasy in which contemporary
fiction, historical drama and legend are seamlessly interwoven; THE SANDMAN is also widely considered one of the most original and artistically ambitious series of the modern age.
Ghostopolis
Doug TenNapel
Accidentally transported to the spirit world by a washed-out ghost wrangler, Garth Hale discovers that he wields unique powers aggressively coveted by the spirits around him and teams up with his grandfather's ghost to find a way back home.
Pitch Black
Youme Landowne & Anthony Horton
A story about an artist who meets a homeless man on a subway who has found solace and shelter amidst the darkness of the underground world of New York City.
The Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer, adapted by Seymour Chwast
A lighthearted graphic-novel interpretation of Chaucer's classic depicts a band of medieval pilgrims on motorcycles who exchange satirical stories while staying at the Tabard Inn.
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life.
Blankets
Craig Thompson
Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers.
Vietnamercia
G. B. Tran
A memoir in graphic novel format about the author's experiences as the son of Vietnamese immigrants who fled to America during the fall of Saigon describes how he learned his tragic ancestral history and the impact of the Vietnam War on his family while visiting their homeland years later.
Batman: the Dark Night Returns
Frank Miller
The Dark Knight returns in a blaze of fury, taking on a whole new generation of criminals and matching their level of violence. He is soon joined by this generation's Robin — a girl named Carrie Kelley, who proves to be just as invaluable as her predecessors.
Fun Home
Alison Bechdel
Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual.
Bone: Out from Boneville
Jeff Smith
When Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are run out of Boneville, they become separated in a forested valley. There they begin an adventure of a lifetime.
American Born Chinese
Gene Luen Yang
Alternates between three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in popular culture.
Manga…
Naruto: The Tests of the Ninja
Masashi Kishimoto
In the village of Konohagakure, school is literally a battlefield where classmates are ninjas in training competing to become the greatest ninja in the land.
Bleach: Strawberry and the Soul Reapers
Tite Kubo
Fifteen-year-old high school student Ichigo Kurosaki has martial arts skills and the ability to see ghosts, and his life is about to change when he meets Rukia Kuchiki, a soul reaper and protector of innocents.
Hellsing
Kohta Hirano
This series follows the Hellsing Organization, an old institution created by English royalty to squash the ghoulish undead of the world, as they face an insurgence of murderous monsters running rampant across the isle, fueled by...could it be...Nazis?
Kimi Ni Todoke
Karuho Shiina
Shy Sawako Kuronuma is ostracized by her classmates, who call her Sadako because of her resemblance to a horror movie heroine, but when Shota Kazehaya, the most popular boy in school, becomes her friend, things start looking up.
Black Cat
Kentaro Yabuki
When Train Heartnet, also known as "Black Cat," decides to quit being an assassin for a secret organization to live life on his own terms as a bounty hunter, he soon discovers that his past is not easily left behind.
Mistress Fortune
Arina Tanemura
Fourteen-year-old psychic Kisaki Tachikawa works for a secret government agency that fights aliens, but when she falls in love with her partner, Giniro, she is suddenly transferred to California.
Death Note
Tsugumi Ohba
When high school student Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a Shinigami death god, he discovers that any person whose name is written in it dies, so Light decides to use the notebook to rid the world of evil.
Chobits
CLAMP
Having left the country for a cram school in the city, Hideki Motosuwa has humorous and unusual experiences with Chi, a "persocom," or miniature android and personal computer.
Rurouni Kenshin
Nobuhiro Watsuki
The wandering swordsman, Himura Kenshin, once an assassin, now fights to protect those in need.
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