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Graphic NovelsWhat is a Graphic Novel? A graphic novel is very much like a comic book except that it is a book-length, complete story told through a combination of text and sequential art. Like comic books, graphic novels encompass many genres such as romance, action, horror, drama, sci-fi and comedy. Sin City, Blankets and Ghost World are just a few of the many graphic novels that have captured the imaginations of people of all ages. Frank Miller's groundbreaking Sin City has recently been made into a movie, causing a frenzy of excitement among graphic novel enthusiasts. Have you never read a graphic novel? Use the list below to help you get started with some of the most popular graphic novels. What is your favorite graphic novel? Discuss in our Community Forums |
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Sin City is the place-tough as leather and dry as tinder. Love is the fuel, and the now-infamous character Marv has the match ... not to mention a "condition." He's gunning after Goldie's killer, so it's time to watch this town burn! Frank Miller is one of modern comic's first talents to publish a comic book that he created, crafted, and owned. Buy The Complete Sin City Series:
Quinn writes mysteries. The Washington Post has described him as a “post-existentialist private eye.” An unknown voice on the telephone is now begging for his help, drawing him into a world and a mystery far stranger than any he ever created in print.
Goofy silent one page gags crammed with little frames showing Mr. O, a round doodle of a man, desperately trying to get over to the other side, and just never quite making it. Everyone else can do it, why can't he? Will keep you in stitches for pages. More of Trondheim's genius at work!
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. A tale of security and discovery, of playfulness and tragedy, of a fall from grace and the origins of faith. A profound and utterly beautiful work.
In this amazingly imaginative tale, literary figures from throughout time and various bodies of work are brought together to face any and all threats to Britain. Allan Quartermain, Mina Murray, Captain Nemo, Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde and Hawley Griffin, the Invisible Man, form a remarkable legion of intellectual aptitude and physical prowess. |
One of the best-selling and critically-acclaimed graphic novels of all-time telling the story of two supremely ironic, above-it-all teenagers facing the thrilling uncertainty of life after high school. As they attempt to carry their life-long friendship into a new era, the careful dynamics of their inseparable bond are jolted, and what seemed like a future of endless possibilities looks more like an encroaching reality of strip malls, low-paying service jobs and fading memories.
From the best-selling author of Persepolis comes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane’s tough-talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors for an afternoon of tea drinking and talking. Naturally, the subject turns to love, sex and the vagaries of men.
Everyone's favorite girl detective makes her dazzling graphic novel debut! Nancy also makes her debut in a horror film concerning a monstrous River Heights urban legend -- but is it really an urban legend or does the River Heights Demon truly exist? And will Nancy, Bess, and George live long enough to find out? Based on Simon and Schuster's newly re-launched series of best-selling Nancy Drew novels by Carolyn Keene.
For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were both highly personal and intensely political. In the Shadow of No Towers, his first new book of comics since the groundbreaking Maus, is a masterful and moving account of the events and aftermath of that tragic day.
Adrian Tomine’s cult comix series Optic Nerve is finally collected into one sharp-looking hardcover volume. Described as the Raymond Carver of comix, Tomine constructs tales of emotional disconnection with an ear for painfully real dialogue. Combined with his deft black and white depictions of urbane lifestyles, Tomine’s fans have often accused him of eavesdropping in on their most intimate moments and, with forensic skill, laying their lives bare. |
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Sin City: The Hard Goodbye #1
