 | Watchmen by Alan Moore
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $10.39 This is a complex and multi-layered work. You will need to read it multiple times, and in multiple ways, to uncover all of it's depth.
Or, just enjoy it at the surface level!
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 | Maus : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began/Boxed by Art Spiegelman
Buy new: $19.73 / Used from: $12.10 These two volumes are wonderful - again they provide an amazingly deep and complex story, as well as highlighting one of the critical moments in history in a very personal manner.
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 | Barefoot Gen, Vol. 1: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima by Keiji Nakazawa
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.84 Another chance to bring history to life in a very personal and accessible manner.
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 | The Adventures of Tintin: The Broken Ear / The Black Island / King Ottokar's Sceptre (3 Complete Adventures in 1 Volume, Vol. 2) by Herge
Buy used from: $31.85 Herge's Tintin series features humor, fantastic artwork, and a variety of adventures to enthrall readers.
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 | Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 by Joe Sacco
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $5.98 Sacco is on the mark, up to date, and as relevant as this week's headlines.
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 | Blue Monday, Vol. 1: The Kids Are Alright by Chynna Clugston-Major
Buy new: $11.95 / Used from: $2.99 The most stolen books - I mean "popular" books in my high school classroom.
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 | Samurai (Usagi Yojimbo, Book 2) by Stan Sakai
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $7.65 The most stolen books - I mean "popular" in my junior high classroom.
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 | We3 by Grant Morrison
Buy new: $10.39 / Used from: $6.75 A very moving story about ethics and animals - could lead to Richard Adams' The Plague Dogs...
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 | Laika by Nick Abadzis
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $7.25 Dog lovers - beware - this will make you cry rivers of tears. Have your tissues handy.
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 | Kings in Disguise: A Novel by James Vance
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $7.40 The Great Depression - brought to life in gritty realism.
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 | Road to Perdition. Graphic Novel. by Max Allan Collins
Buy used from: $25.00 Another depression era piece, this one focusing on gangsters and family.
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 | A Jew in Communist Prague: Loss of Innocence (Jew in Communist Prague) by Vittorio Giardino
Buy used from: $8.99 Another personal look into history.
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 | Last Day in Vietnam by Will Eisner
Buy new: $8.76 / Used from: $2.68 There are many great books by Will Eisner, but this is my personal favorite - thus it is the one included here.
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 | Age of Bronze Volume 1: A Thousand Ships by Eric Shanower
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $6.00 More accessible than your average history book. More detail, too.
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 | 300 by Frank Miller
Buy new: $23.52 / Used from: $15.00 A grand retelling of an ancient tale.
Hook them with this, then get them reading Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire...
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 | Give Me Liberty by Frank Miller
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.94 Another social science fiction series.
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 | Girl Genius Volume 1: Agatha Heterodyne & The Beetleburg Clank (Girl Genius) by Phil Foglio
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $4.00 Fun and adventure with a strong female protagonist - lots of action, and funny, funny, funny!
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 | The Courageous Princess by Rod Espinosa
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.88 Another strong female protagonist, this time in a fantasy setting.
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 | Neotopia Color Manga #1 (Neotopia) by Rod Espinosa
Buy used from: $6.40 A vision of a future where mankind has learned from some of our mistakes.
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 | Akira, Vol. 1 by Katsuhiro Otomo
Buy used from: $12.47 Action, excitement, motorcycles, a future gone wrong...
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 | Strangers In Paradise: I Dream of You (Strangers in Paradise) by Terry Moore
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $3.95 Complex adult relationships, in a comic book?
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 | Shatter: The Revolutionary Graphic Novel by Michael Saenz
Buy used from: $0.01 Not just revolutionary due to it's being produced on a computer.
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| Desperadoes: A Moment's Sunlight by Jeff Mariotte
Buy used from: $6.51 The wild west... with a bit of the supernatural.
A lot of fun.
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| The Rocketeer: All 5 Action Chapters! (Graphic Novel) by Dave Stevens
Buy used from: $29.97 Great pulpy goodness. Much better than the film adaptation.
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 | American Flagg by Howard Chaykin
Buy new: $26.85 Another look at a future warped by certain excesses.
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| Generation Zero by Pepe Moreno
Buy used from: $11.99 Post apocalypse adventure.
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