Comics are a form

used to tell many kinds of stories

Art Spiegelman,Maus

Craig Thompson, Blankets

Hope Larson, Chiggers & Mercury

Posy Simmonds, Tamara Drewe

Debbie Drechsler,Daddy’s Girl

Chester Brown,Louis Riel

James Kochalka, American Elf

Alison Bechdel, Fun Home

Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis

Joe Sacco, Footnotes in Gaza

Emmanuel Guibert & Didier Lefevre,

The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with

Doctors Without Borders

Jim Ottaviani & Leland Myrick, Feynman

Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos & Annie Di Donna, Logicomix: an Epic Search for Truth

Carol Lay,The Big Skinny

Shakespeare adapatations by various, including Gareth Hinds

Nicki Greenberg, Shakespeare’s Hamlet(Allen & Unwin)

Shary Boyle, from Kramer’s Ergot 7

David Raw,Drawing Silence

A selection of Christian tracts from Jack T. Chick comics

Scott McCloud, Understanding ComicsReinventing Comics

Making Comics

Paul Gravett, Graphic Novels – Everything You Need to Know

(also known as Graphic Novels – Stories to Change Your life)

The Best American ComicsCover art by Michael Cho (left), Jillian Tamaki (right)

Alan Moore (et al), Watchmen, Miracleman,

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,

Top 10;James Sturm (et al), Unstable Molecules; Warren Ellis (et al),

The Authority; Grant Morrison (et al),

The Invisibles

Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons,

The Watchmen

Neil Gaiman (et al), Sandman Brian K. Vaughan (et al), Y: the Last Man

Comics are

everywhere

Blutch, Blotch: Le Roi de Paris

Edmond Baudoin, Le Chemin de Saint-Jean

Joann Sfar, Pascin

Jacques Tardi & JeanVautrin, Le Cri Du Peuple

Frederic Boilet & Benôit Peeters, Tokyo est mon Jardin

Philippe Dupuy, Hanté

BD

Amruta Patil,Parva/The Epic

Manga

Shojo Shonen

Shojo Beat Shonen Jump

Osamu Tezuka, Buddha

Rumiko Takahashi, Ranma 1/2

Josei – manga for women

Yayoi Ogawa, Tramps Like Us

Seinen – more mature ‘shonen’ manga

Mochizuki Minetaro, Dragon Head

Naoki Urasawa, Monster

Shimizu Yuki,Love Mode

Clamp,Miyuki-chan in Wonderland

Yaoi – Boy Love Yuri – Girl Love

Tetsu Kariya & Akira Hanasaki,Oishinbo A La Carte

Gurume Gourmet comics

Shotaro Ishinomori,

Japan Inc.: an introduction to

Japanese Economics

Information manga

Kazuichi Hanawa,Doing Time

Alternative manga

Frederik Schodt, Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese ComicsPaul Gravett, Manga – Sixty Years of Japanese Comics