r/graphicnovels · 2021

Most-mentioned books in r/graphicnovels during 2021

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/graphicnovels within the published source unit for 2021. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

Books ranked

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Tracked mentions in 2021

Sort by upvotes = sum of comment scores on recognized mentions

Maus

Art Spiegelman

A cartoonist draws his father surviving Auschwitz as a mouse hunted by cats, and somehow that's the version that makes the history land.

318 in 2021

Daytripper

Fábio Moon

An obituary writer in São Paulo dies at the end of every chapter, at a different age each time, and each death changes what the rest of his life meant.

271 in 2021

The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes

Neil Gaiman

An occultist accidentally imprisons the personification of Dreams for seventy years, and the fallout runs seventy-five issues.

247 in 2021

Watchmen

Alan Moore

Retired costumed vigilantes investigate one of their own's murder while the Cold War doomsday clock ticks toward midnight.

212 in 2021

Monstress

Marjorie Liu

A teenage survivor shares her body with an ancient monster while navigating matriarchal empires, magical war, and histories every faction wants to control.

160 in 2021

Saga

Brian K. Vaughan

Two soldiers from opposing sides flee with their newborn while governments, freelancers, relatives, and old wounds keep turning a family into a political threat.

140 in 2021

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi

A ten-year-old watches the Islamic Revolution take over Tehran from her bedroom window, then gets smuggled out the same way generations before her never could.

95 in 2021

Invincible

Robert Kirkman

A teenager gets superpowers, moonlights as a hero named after himself, and lands at #11 on a 77-point Reddit best-of list.

93 in 2021

Bone

Jeff Smith

Three cousins get run out of Boneville and spend nine volumes finding out the valley they land in is already fighting a war.

73 in 2021

#10

Fun Home

Alison Bechdel

A cartoonist traces her closeted father's death against her own coming-out, and realizes they were both hiding in the same family funeral home the whole time.

66 in 2021

#11

Blankets

Craig Thompson

A boy's strict evangelical childhood and first love, drawn across six hundred pages that are mostly snow and white space.

47 in 2021

#12

Understanding Comics

Scott McCloud

A reader almost skips it over the condescending-sounding title, then calls it the book that changed how they see art.

35 in 2021