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    The 50 greatest graphic

    novels of all timeSunday 18 August 2013

    This is now, finally, the age of the graphic novel.

    Image from Persepolis

    The humble comic-strip can trace its origins to Hogarth and the painters of Japan's Edo period, but for most

    of the 20th century it was regarded as a second-rate pulp form.

    That reputation has changed dramatically in recent years. Now, the graphic novel (a catch-all term at best)

    has embraced Pulitzer Prize-winning memoirs, hard-hitting journalism and astute social commentary.Cartoonists get nominated for the Costa Prize and the Edinburgh International Book Festival has a whole

    strand - Stripped - dedicated to graphic fiction.

    So we thought we'd ask cartoonists, novelists, critics, publishers, journalists, comic historians, comedians

    and the odd musician what books should be in everybody's library.

    Here are the 50 graphic novels you need to read.

    50 Heavy Liquid, Paul Pope (1999)

    Day-after-tomorrow sci-fi drawn with a spidery flair and dynamism.

    49 Sin City, Frank Miller (1993)

    Morally dubious, artistically thrilling. Mickey Spillane on drugs.

    48 Barefoot Gen, Keiji Nakazawa (1973)

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    A harrowing account of Hiroshima as told by one of its survivors.

    47 The Arrival, Shaun Tan (2006)

    Australian cartoonist Tan's wordless fable tells the story of the immigrant experience in dusty black and

    white.

    46 Tamara Drewe, Posy Simmonds (2005)

    Simmonds's contemporary take on Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd.

    44= Goliath, Tom Gauld (2012)

    The story of David and Goliath, as told from the giant's perspective. Bittersweet comedy from the Scottish

    cartoonist.

    44= Blacksad, Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido (2002)

    Raymond Chandler via Walt Disney, with a feline private eye.

    43 Summer Blonde, Adrian Tomine (2002)

    Generation X disaffection laid down in crisp, clean lines.

    42 Alec: The Years Have Pants (2009)

    A monster compilation of Scots expat Eddie Campbell's autobiographical comics. A woozy, boozy life story.

    41 Fluffy, Simone Lia (2003)

    The story of a baby rabbit, this plays with cuteness and whimsy but never feels sickly sweet.

    40 The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil, Stephen Collins (2013)

    Collins's darkly humorous fable about order and chaos via beardiness.

    39 Krazy Kat (1913-1944)

    George Herriman's scratchy, funny, beautifully idiosyncratic comic strip was loved by Picasso and the poet

    EE Cummings.

    38 Everything We Miss, Luke Pearson (2011)

    The story of the end of a relationship is both intimate and cosmic in scale.

    36 = It Was The War Of The Trenches, Jacques Tardi (1982)

    Life in the trenches caught by the French cartoonist in horrifying detail.

    36 = Blankets, Craig Thompson (2003)

    Thompson's memoir takes on Christian fundamentalism, family ties and erotic love over 600 gorgeously

    rendered pages.

    35 The Lagoon, Lili Carre (2008)

    Family secrets and watery monsters. "No other comic I've read has had such a well-defined use of

    atmosphere or effective use of sound," says cartoonist Luke Pearson.

    34 The Preacher, Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, (1995-2000)

    Gross-out laughs, graphic violence and religion. Not for the faint-hearted.

    33 The Complete Calvin And Hobbes, Bill Watterson (2005)

    The best comic strip ever? Certainly the funniest.

    32 Y: The Last Man, Brian K Vaughan and Pia Guerra (2002-2008)

    The story of the last man alive in a world of women. Not a sex comedy.

    31 My New York Diary, Julie Doucet (1999)

    Doucet's New York memoir takes in sex, a suicide attempt and dirty socks. Life retold as the blackest of

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    black comedies.

    30 Buddha, Osamu Tezuka (1972-1983)

    This biography of Buddha is an example of the ambition and sheer strangeness of manga.

    29 Gemma Bovary, Posy Simmonds (1999)

    An exquisite example of Simmonds's eye for detail and ear for dialogue.

    28 The Nikopol Trilogy, Enki Bilal (1980-1992)

    Dystopian science fiction bande desinee full of blue-haired girls and Egyptian Gods.

    27 Dockwood, Jon McNaught (2012)

    McNaught's patient, hushed draughtmanship and storytelling captures the poetry of everyday lives.

    26 Nelson, Various Artists (2012)

    Some 54 British cartoonists take it in turns to tell the story of the life of one woman from her birth to the

    present day. A giddy, poppy delight.

    25 A Contract With God, Will Eisner (1978)

    God, death and poverty in a 1930s New York tenement.

    24 Gus And His Gang, Christophe Blain (2007)

    In which the French cartoonist recreates the Wild West as a place of slapstick farce.

    23 Tintin: Moon Adventure, Herg (1953-1954)

    Binding together two adventures, Destination Moon and Explorers On The Moon, Herge takes Tintin into

    space.

    22 Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (2006)

    The American cartoonist recounts her relationship with her father Bruce. A story of gay life then and now.

    21 Pyongjang, Guy Delisle (2007)

    A graphic travelogue about one of the most secretive societies in the world, North Korea.

    20 Corto Maltese: Ballad Of The Salty Sea, Hugo Pratt (1967)

    The first in a series of adventure stories that stand out for their historical accuracy and Pratt's handsome

    artistry.

    19 Days Of The Bagnold Summer, Joff Winterhart (2012)

    Winterhart's story of a mother and her metalhead son is one of the funniest and sweetest accounts of family

    life.

    18 Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli (2009)

    Mazzucchelli started off drawing Batman comics before moving on this graphically innovative life story of a

    self-important architect, as told by his dead twin brother. "The kind of high-end intellectual pop that comics

    can do really well," says cartoonist Stephen Collins.

    17 Building Stories, Chris Ware (2012)

    Ware's most recent graphic novel comes in 14 different parts. Whatever order you read it in, this story of life

    in a Chicago apartment block will still break your heart.

    16 It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken, Seth (1996)

    Canadian cartoonist Seth's graphic fiction is soaked in a nostalgia for a romanticised past. "When I picked

    this up in my early twenties it opened up my mind in terms of what words and pictures can do," says

    illustrator and novelist Leanne Shapton.

    15 The Incal, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius (2011)

    A collaboration between France's greatest artist of the future and the cult film director of El Topo resulted in

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    this mad, visionary French space opera from the 1980s.

    14 Epileptic, David B (1996)

    A memoir of two brothers, a story of illness and childhood imagination and an inky fever-dream of a book.

    13 The Nao Of Brown, Glyn Dillon (2012)

    Buddhism, OCD, alcoholism. A painted love story, a thing of beauty.

    12 Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller (1986)

    The superhero recast as Dirty Harry in this wild, fierce, satirical take on the genre.

    11 Akira, Katshuiro Otomo (1982-1990)

    Set in Neo Tokyo in 2030, Otomo's huge, sprawling SF epic introduced Japanese manga to the west.

    10 Palestine, Joe Sacco (1993)

    The cartoonist as war-zone reporter. Joe Sacco's account of his visit to the Occupied Territories at the start

    of the 1990s is a powerful example of the potential of comic strips. Art Spiegelman said of Sacco's work: "In

    a world where Photoshop has outed the photograph as a liar, one can now allow artists to return to their

    original function - as reporters."

    9 V For Vendetta, Alan Moore and David Lloyd (1982-1989)

    Originally conceived during the political chill of Thatcherism, Alan Moore extrapolated a political future that

    saw Britain slide into fascism and then set against it anarchist "hero" V who begins his attack on the state

    by blowing up the Houses of Parliament. Complemented perfectly by the controlled grittiness of David

    Lloyd's art, this is the comic book as treatise on political belief system. Has gained real-world traction in

    recent years as members of Occupy have adopted V's Guy Fawkes mask.

    8 Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1987)

    Does the ending spoil it? Moore's intricately planned, complex reboot of the superhero genre may ultimately

    trip up over the pulpy melodrama of its climax. But this was a game-changer for graphic novels, opening

    reader's eyes to the form's potential visual and verbal literacy. Also contains possibly the best pirate story

    ever written.

    7 Locas, Jaime Hernandez (1982-2013)

    "Hernandez is North America's greatest living comics creator," says cartoonist Woodrow Phoenix. "He

    wears his command of every facet of sequential narrative so lightly that while you are seduced by his

    gorgeous drawings, you don't notice how densely and subtly told his stories are." And that's possibly

    underselling it. Hernandez's 30-year exploration of the life of Latina Maggie Chascarillo - from punk chica to

    middle-aged woman - is simply one of the greatest achievements in any form in those years.

    6 From Hell, Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell (1999)

    Moore's take on the Jack the Ripper story. Aided by Eddie Campbell's scratchy art, it's also an examination

    of the misogyny of Victorian values, an occult history and a psychogeographic exploration of London. A

    potent, perverse, black hole of a book that exerts a malign pull.

    5 Ghost World, Daniel Clowes (1997)

    The story of American teenagers Enid Coleslaw (it's an anagram) and Rebecca Doppelmeyer, Clowes's

    most successful work is an outsider's account of what it is to be an outsider, the fuzzy borderline between

    adolescence and adulthood, and the strangeness of suburbia. "Perfectly captures the weirdness and

    boredom of teenage life," suggests cartoonist Tom Gauld.

    4 Black Hole, Charles Burns (2005)

    If David Lynch did teen romance ... Charles Burns recasts adolescent sexuality as the stuff of sci-fi

    melodrama while taking Herg's clean-line drawing style to the dark side. The result is creepily beautiful.

    "Black Hole is an unsettling book," says cartoonist Will Morris. "It teases your nerves and at times I'm sure I

    even felt a slight nausea."

    3 Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid On Earth, Chris Ware (2000)

    Eight years in the making, Ware's graphic novel may on the page look like the most formally precise title in

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    this list, yet that perfection can be misleading. It moves so easily between the past and the present, reality

    and imagination that you can get lost in its labyrinth. "Sophisticated like free jazz," suggests Metraphrog

    cartoonist John Chalmers. "It changed the way I looked at the world, at comics, the way I drew," adds

    Stephen Collins.

    2 Maus, Art Spiegelman (1991)

    Possibly the most important title in our countdown. If Watchmen opened people's eyes to what you could do

    with superheroes, Spiegelman's memoir recalibrated what people expected from comics entirely. The son

    of a holocaust survivor, Spiegelman's graphic memoir tells his father's story. In Maus the Jews are mice and

    the Nazis are cats, a subversion of Nazi propaganda. The result, a Pulitzer Prize winner, is as good as

    comic books get. But it's not the winner.

    1 Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2000)

    In 1995, Marjane Satrapi was given a copy of Maus as a birthday present. She had no idea that you could

    tell stories in this way. And so she decided to tell hers. The result is this memoir of a punky, sarky girl in a

    veil in post-revolutionary Iran. It uses minimalist, at times childlike art to reveal a world - Tehran in the

    Khomeini years - most of us don't know much about, in all its complexity. "Probably the first comic I read

    and, like a lot of girls, it was the one that really got me into comics," says cartoonist Isabel Greenberg. If you

    haven't read a graphic novel before, start here.

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    Scott Underwood

    Thanks for the list, many here I have not read. I would suggest Craig Thompson's

    "Habibi" is an even greater accomplishment than "Blankets." It's a remarkable book,

    both the story and the Arabic-inspired artwork.

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    Roderick McKie

    I agree with Scott about Habibi. Also, Chris Ware's 'Acme Novelty Factory #19 Lint'

    is a masterpiece and it's a seriously flawed list that doesn't include it in a "top 50".

    The Complete Calvin and Hobbes isn't a "graphic novel" nor are anthologies and nor

    is a 'Krazy Kat' collection. Posey Simmonds with her updating of classics into Aga-

    sagas is almost as well represented here as the whole of Japan on this list, which is

    shocking. Only 'Buddha' from Osamu Tezuka, really? And nothing from Naoki

    Urasawa, not 'Monster', not '20th Century Boys', and no mention of Town of

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    Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms? One little title from Hugo Pratt, no sign

    ofLargoWinch or Blake and Mortimer, but quite a few "instant classic", which

    might well go on to become so, but let's give them more than 12 months or even less

    to prove their status.

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    Teddy Jamieson

    Interesting points Roderick. Inevitably when it comes to polls you end up

    reflecting the tastes of the people you ask to vote. We can also argue aboutwhat does and does not qualify for inclusion, but in organising the poll I kept

    it as open as I could to allow people to choose as freely as possible. What that

    meant is that the titles there was a concensus around tended to rise to the

    top.

    I asked everyone polled to name their top ten in order. Would be keen for

    everyone reading this to now do the same. Might be interesting to compare

    notes. Would love to see your top ten Roderick.

    And re Ware. Have you read the short story he did for Zadie Smith's

    collection The Book of Other People?

    Russell Willis

    A very good list with most of my favourites on it, and one I'd be generally happy to

    give to anyone interested in graphic novels. The one glaring omission for me would

    be Raymond Briggs' Ethel & Ernest. Not only is it a classic, it's a title that's a perfect

    introduction to graphic novels for the uninitiated.

    Sandy Beveridge

    Great list you compiled Teddy. I'm a big fan of Glyn Dillon's Nao of Brown. The only

    additions I think I would make are the psychedelic masterpiece The Frank Book by

    Jim Woodring, anything by the Norweigan comic creator Jason, and Forming by

    Jesse Moynihan, plublished by Nobrow - one of the funniest comics i've read.

    Rune Langfjran

    Is this supposed to be taken seriously? How is it possible to make a list of "The 50

    greatest graphic novels of all time" and not include Neil Gaiman's The Sandman?

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