NPR's Let's Get Graphic: 100 Favorite Comics And Graphic Novels

December 19, 2021
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Graphic novel picks include fan favorites from Marvel and DC alongside indie creators in this list of 100 great comics as collected by NPR's Glen Weldon and Petra Mayer.

Details	Readers Count
The Most Dangerous Game Zach Weinersmith	3 reads
Bone, Vol. 3: Eyes of the Storm Jeff Smith	143 reads
Action Comics Jerry Siegel Don Cameron Otto Binder Jerry Coleman	2 reads
El Deafo Cece Bell	55 reads
Carl Barks Walt Disney Company	0 reads
Vattu Vattu Evan Dahm	1 read
The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal E.K. Weaver	2 reads
O Human Star, Volume One Blue Delliquanti	4 reads
Kill 6 Billion Demons Tom Parkinson-Morgan	13 reads
Gunnerkrigg Court, Volume 1: Orientation Thomas Siddell	16 reads
Stand Still, Stay Silent Stand Still, Stay Silent: Book 1 Minna Sundberg	2 reads
Oh Joy Sex Toy Erika Moen	1 read
As the Crow Flies Melanie Gillman	17 reads
Homestuck Andrew Hussie	10 reads
Wondermark, Vol. 1: Beards of Our Forefathers David Malki	0 reads
The Nib #1 The Nib #1	0 reads
The Case of the Team Spirit John Allison	5 reads
Thimble Theater, Introducing Popeye E.C. Segar	0 reads
Come Over, Come Over Lynda Barry	2 reads
Leonard Starr's Mary Perkins On Stage Volume 1 Leonard Starr's Mary Perkins On Stage Volume 1 Leonard Starr	0 reads
The Bloom County Library, Vol. 1: 1980-1982 Berkeley Breathed	4 reads
Geo Herriman's Krazy Ignatz: The Komplete Kat Komics, 1916 George Herriman	0 reads
All-Star Superman, Vol. 1 Grant Morrison Frank Quitely	76 reads
X-Men Chris Claremont	1 read
The Incal, Vol. 1 Alejandro Jodorowsky Mœbius	29 reads
Shade, the Changing Man, Volume 1: The American Scream Peter Milligan	4 reads
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers Ben Passmore	2 reads
Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 1 Inio Asano	56 reads
Whiteout Greg Rucka Steve Lieber	15 reads
The Mad Archives Wallace Wood Will Elder Harvey Kurtzman John Severin Jerry DeFuccio	1 read
Doom Patrol, Vol. 4: Musclebound Grant Morrison	10 reads
Planetary, Volume 1	35 reads
Twentieth Century Eightball Daniel Clowes	5 reads
Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 Gilbert Hernández Mario Hernández Jaime Hernández	2 reads
The Encyclopedia of Early Earth Isabel Greenberg	17 reads
Megahex Simon Hanselmann	11 reads
Here Richard McGuire	46 reads
Blacksad Juan Díaz Canales	31 reads
Daytripper Fábio Moon Gabriel Bá	111 reads
The Stonekeeper Kazu Kibuishi	110 reads
Legends of Zita the Spacegirl Ben Hatke	10 reads
American Born Chinese Gene Luen Yang	131 reads
Castle Waiting Linda Medley	12 reads
Ghosts Raina Telgemeier	95 reads
Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey Ngozi Ukazu	75 reads
Hark! A Vagrant Kate Beaton	46 reads
Little Lulu, Volume 8: Late For School John Stanley Irving Tripp	0 reads
Peanuts Charles M. Schulz	1 read
More Dykes to Watch Out For Alison Bechdel	2 reads
Pogo Walt Kelly	0 reads
Calvin and Hobbes Bill Watterson	113 reads
Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon	108 reads
Hellboy, Vol. 7: The Troll Witch and Others Mike Mignola P. Craig Russell	11 reads
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 1: Squirrel Power	61 reads
Gotham Central, Vol. 2: Half a Life Greg Rucka	7 reads
Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing Alan Moore	41 reads
Astro city life in the big city Kurt Busiek	2 reads
The Vision Tom King	40 reads
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal G. Willow Wilson	188 reads
Black Panther, Vol. 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book One Ta-Nehisi Coates Stan Lee Laura Martin	14 reads
The Absolute Sandman, Volume One	72 reads
Rogue's Curse Wendy Pini Richard Pini Bern Harkins	5 reads
Saga, Book One	88 reads
Hip hop family tree Ed Piskor	0 reads
Understanding Comics Scott McCloud	158 reads
March John Lewis Andrew Aydin Nate Powell	3 reads
Fun home Alison Bechdel	253 reads
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi Mattias Ripa (Translator)	357 reads
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 25 Hiromu Arakawa Akira Watanabe (Translator)	19 reads
One Piece, Vol. 6: The Oath Eiichiro Oda Naoko Amemiya (Translator)	65 reads
Pluto, 02 Naoki Urasawa Takashi Nagasaki	42 reads
Akira, Vol. 1 Yoko Umezawa (Translator) Linda M. York (Translator) Jo Duffy (Translator) Katsuhiro Ōtomo	114 reads
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: The Complete Series David Lewis (Translator) Toren Smith (Translator)	14 reads
Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 1: The Assassin's Road Kazuo Koike	15 reads
Finder: The Rescuers Carla Speed McNeil	1 read
Sex Criminals, Volume Three: Three the Hard Way Matt Fraction	32 reads
Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard, Vol. 1 David Petersen	40 reads
Usagi Yojimbo Stan Sakai	0 reads
The Walking Dead, Vol. 17: Something to Fear Robert Kirkman	25 reads
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 0: Tales of Human Waste Warren Ellis	94 reads
Locke & Key, Vol. 6: Alpha & Omega Joe Hill	98 reads
Bitch Planet Volume 2 Kelly Sue DeConnick Valentine De Landro	18 reads
The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act Kieron Gillen	169 reads
Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening Marjorie M. Liu Sana Takeda	207 reads
The color of heaven Kim dong hwa Tong-hwa Kim	0 reads
Contract with God Trilogy Will Eisner	5 reads
How To Be Happy Eleanor Davis	12 reads
The Acme Novelty Library #13 Chris Ware	41 reads
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 Emil Ferris	60 reads
Blankets Craig Thompson	229 reads
Through the Woods Emily Carroll	176 reads
Sweet Tooth, Volume 1: Out of the Deep Woods	64 reads
This One Summer Mariko Tamaki	153 reads
Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History Art Spiegelman	357 reads
Watchmen Alan Moore	975 reads
Nimona N.D. Stevenson	373 reads

Details	Readers Count
The Most Dangerous Game Zach Weinersmith	3 reads
Bone, Vol. 3: Eyes of the Storm Jeff Smith	143 reads
Action Comics Jerry Siegel Don Cameron Otto Binder Jerry Coleman	2 reads
El Deafo Cece Bell	55 reads
Carl Barks Walt Disney Company	0 reads
Vattu Vattu Evan Dahm	1 read
The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal E.K. Weaver	2 reads
O Human Star, Volume One Blue Delliquanti	4 reads
Kill 6 Billion Demons Tom Parkinson-Morgan	13 reads
Gunnerkrigg Court, Volume 1: Orientation Thomas Siddell	16 reads
Stand Still, Stay Silent Stand Still, Stay Silent: Book 1 Minna Sundberg	2 reads
Oh Joy Sex Toy Erika Moen	1 read
As the Crow Flies Melanie Gillman	17 reads
Homestuck Andrew Hussie	10 reads
Wondermark, Vol. 1: Beards of Our Forefathers David Malki	0 reads
The Nib #1 The Nib #1	0 reads
The Case of the Team Spirit John Allison	5 reads
Thimble Theater, Introducing Popeye E.C. Segar	0 reads
Come Over, Come Over Lynda Barry	2 reads
Leonard Starr's Mary Perkins On Stage Volume 1 Leonard Starr's Mary Perkins On Stage Volume 1 Leonard Starr	0 reads
The Bloom County Library, Vol. 1: 1980-1982 Berkeley Breathed	4 reads
Geo Herriman's Krazy Ignatz: The Komplete Kat Komics, 1916 George Herriman	0 reads
All-Star Superman, Vol. 1 Grant Morrison Frank Quitely	76 reads
X-Men Chris Claremont	1 read
The Incal, Vol. 1 Alejandro Jodorowsky Mœbius	29 reads
Shade, the Changing Man, Volume 1: The American Scream Peter Milligan	4 reads
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers Ben Passmore	2 reads
Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 1 Inio Asano	56 reads
Whiteout Greg Rucka Steve Lieber	15 reads
The Mad Archives Wallace Wood Will Elder Harvey Kurtzman John Severin Jerry DeFuccio	1 read
Doom Patrol, Vol. 4: Musclebound Grant Morrison	10 reads
Planetary, Volume 1	35 reads
Twentieth Century Eightball Daniel Clowes	5 reads
Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 Gilbert Hernández Mario Hernández Jaime Hernández	2 reads
The Encyclopedia of Early Earth Isabel Greenberg	17 reads
Megahex Simon Hanselmann	11 reads
Here Richard McGuire	46 reads
Blacksad Juan Díaz Canales	31 reads
Daytripper Fábio Moon Gabriel Bá	111 reads
The Stonekeeper Kazu Kibuishi	110 reads
Legends of Zita the Spacegirl Ben Hatke	10 reads
American Born Chinese Gene Luen Yang	131 reads
Castle Waiting Linda Medley	12 reads
Ghosts Raina Telgemeier	95 reads
Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey Ngozi Ukazu	75 reads
Hark! A Vagrant Kate Beaton	46 reads
Little Lulu, Volume 8: Late For School John Stanley Irving Tripp	0 reads
Peanuts Charles M. Schulz	1 read
More Dykes to Watch Out For Alison Bechdel	2 reads
Pogo Walt Kelly	0 reads
Calvin and Hobbes Bill Watterson	113 reads
Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon	108 reads
Hellboy, Vol. 7: The Troll Witch and Others Mike Mignola P. Craig Russell	11 reads
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 1: Squirrel Power	61 reads
Gotham Central, Vol. 2: Half a Life Greg Rucka	7 reads
Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing Alan Moore	41 reads
Astro city life in the big city Kurt Busiek	2 reads
The Vision Tom King	40 reads
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal G. Willow Wilson	188 reads
Black Panther, Vol. 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book One Ta-Nehisi Coates Stan Lee Laura Martin	14 reads
The Absolute Sandman, Volume One	72 reads
Rogue's Curse Wendy Pini Richard Pini Bern Harkins	5 reads
Saga, Book One	88 reads
Hip hop family tree Ed Piskor	0 reads
Understanding Comics Scott McCloud	158 reads
March John Lewis Andrew Aydin Nate Powell	3 reads
Fun home Alison Bechdel	253 reads
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi Mattias Ripa (Translator)	357 reads
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 25 Hiromu Arakawa Akira Watanabe (Translator)	19 reads
One Piece, Vol. 6: The Oath Eiichiro Oda Naoko Amemiya (Translator)	65 reads
Pluto, 02 Naoki Urasawa Takashi Nagasaki	42 reads
Akira, Vol. 1 Yoko Umezawa (Translator) Linda M. York (Translator) Jo Duffy (Translator) Katsuhiro Ōtomo	114 reads
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: The Complete Series David Lewis (Translator) Toren Smith (Translator)	14 reads
Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 1: The Assassin's Road Kazuo Koike	15 reads
Finder: The Rescuers Carla Speed McNeil	1 read
Sex Criminals, Volume Three: Three the Hard Way Matt Fraction	32 reads
Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard, Vol. 1 David Petersen	40 reads
Usagi Yojimbo Stan Sakai	0 reads
The Walking Dead, Vol. 17: Something to Fear Robert Kirkman	25 reads
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 0: Tales of Human Waste Warren Ellis	94 reads
Locke & Key, Vol. 6: Alpha & Omega Joe Hill	98 reads
Bitch Planet Volume 2 Kelly Sue DeConnick Valentine De Landro	18 reads
The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act Kieron Gillen	169 reads
Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening Marjorie M. Liu Sana Takeda	207 reads
The color of heaven Kim dong hwa Tong-hwa Kim	0 reads
Contract with God Trilogy Will Eisner	5 reads
How To Be Happy Eleanor Davis	12 reads
The Acme Novelty Library #13 Chris Ware	41 reads
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 Emil Ferris	60 reads
Blankets Craig Thompson	229 reads
Through the Woods Emily Carroll	176 reads
Sweet Tooth, Volume 1: Out of the Deep Woods	64 reads
This One Summer Mariko Tamaki	153 reads
Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History Art Spiegelman	357 reads
Watchmen Alan Moore	975 reads
Nimona N.D. Stevenson	373 reads

NPR's Let's Get Graphic: 100 Favorite Comics And Graphic Novels

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