Hey everyone! I’m looking for suggestions for graphic novels that are more substantial plotwise, almost like a novel? Most of the lists I find are smaller ones like Heartstopper, Nimona or like Maus, Sandman etc and while they are also great, it’s just not what I’m looking for?
Examples of ones that fit this bill (in my head) –
Blankets and Habibi by Craig Thompson
Persepolis series by Marjane Satrapi
Fun Home, Are you my mother etc by Alison Bechdel
Some books by Joe Sacco and Guy Delise
Same Difference by Derek Kirk Kim
Aya series by Marguerite Abouet
Or even slightly more comic ones like-
Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi
Cardboard by Doug TenNapel
Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol
Sorry if my list is more confusing than anything else, but I would love some new suggestions!
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Black Hammer by Jeff Lemire
Sweet Tooth by Jeff Lemire
Trillium and The Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire
John Porcellino
Julia Wertz’s work
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel by Mariah Marsden
Calvin and Hobbes
Kindred Graphic novel
Butch Heroes by Ria Brodell
Good Talk by Mira Jacob
Ascender by Jeff Lemire
Our Work is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance by Syan Rose
Wake: The Untold History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall, illustrated by Hugo Martínez
Anders Nilsen
Seth Tobocman
Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 by MK Czerwiec
BTTM FDRS by Ezra Claytan Daniels, illustrated by Ben Passmore
Comics for Choice: Illustrated Abortion Stories, History and Politics edited by Hazel Newlevant, Whit Taylor, and O.K. Fox
A.D.: After Death by Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire
My Brain Hurts, Volume One by Liz Baillie
Citizen 13660 by Mine Okubo
Photobooth: A Biography by Meags Fitzgerald
MariNaomi
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld
Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism by Cindy Milstein and Erik Ruin
The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg
100 Crushes by Elisha Lim
The Ring of Fire Anthology by ET Russian
Important Comics are Bad by Dina Kelberman
Spit and Passion by Cristy Road
Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi
My Dirty Dumb Eyes by Lisa Hanawalt
Nicole Georges
enjoy <3
For finding new graphic novels, I suggest:
-looking at presses that put out graphic novels you like, and seeing what other books those presses publish.
Craig Thompson’s work is put out by Drawn & Quarterly, Drawn & Quarterly also publishes Guy Delisle, and the Aya Series.
[https://drawnandquarterly.com/](https://drawnandquarterly.com/)
Persepolis is on Pantheon.
[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/PGN/pantheon-graphic-library/](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/PGN/pantheon-graphic-library/)
Joe Sacco’s work is on Fantagraphics.
[https://www.fantagraphics.com/](https://www.fantagraphics.com/)
Fantagraphics also publishes Anders Nilsen.
Same Difference is on First Second.
[https://firstsecondbooks.com/](https://firstsecondbooks.com/)
The Amulet series is on Graphix, as is Cardboard by Doug TenNapel.
[https://kids.scholastic.com/kid/books/graphix/](https://kids.scholastic.com/kid/books/graphix/)
A second idea is to ask your local library for lists of graphic novels they recommend, and they should be able to direct you to some good books! Have fun! 🙂