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Comics & Graphic Novels book communities on Reddit

Graphic novels, comics, manga, and illustrated nonfiction discussed by readers who discuss the medium in depth.

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r/graphicnovels

A medium-focused community discussing graphic novels, memoir, long-form comics, collected editions, creators, formats, and recommendations beyond one genre or publisher.

Hot recently in Comics & Graphic Novels

Ranked by mentions in the latest six observed months for this subreddit.

Watchmen

Alan Moore

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

8 recent

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.

6 recent

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.

5 recent

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.

2 recent

Blankets

Craig Thompson

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

1 recent

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.

1 recent

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.

1 recent

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.

1 recent

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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.

2,034 in this theme

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.

1,514 in this theme

The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes

Neil Gaiman

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

1,291 in this theme

Watchmen

Alan Moore

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

1,212 in this theme

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.

1,057 in this theme

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.

753 in this theme

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.

749 in this theme

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.

691 in this theme

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.

516 in this theme