Comics & Graphic Novels

(in chronological order of publication date)

* indicates that selections of the work should be chosen in consultation with committee

Rodolphe Töpffer, The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck (1837)
Rudolph Dirks, The Katzenjammer Kids (1897-1913)
Winsor McCay, Little Nemo in Slumberland (1905-1914)
George Herriman, Krazy Kat (1914-1944)*
Early superhero comics (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman) (1938-1945)*
Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts strip (1950-2000)*
R. Crumb, Collected Works (1967- )*
Mad Magazine (Al Feldstein, ed., 1952-1985)*
Keiji Nakazawa, Barefoot Gen series (1973-1987)
Osamu Tezuka, Black Jack series (1973-1983)
Harvey Pekar, American Splendor (1976-2008)
Will Eisner, A Contract with God (1978)
Art Spiegelman, MAUS, Vols I and II (1980-1992)
Frank Miller, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986)
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons, Watchmen (1986-1987)
Lynda Barry, The Good Times are Killing Me (1988)
Lynda Barry, One Hundred Demons (2002)
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman (1989-1996)
Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (1993)
Daniel Clowes, Ghost World (1995)
Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis (2000)
Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2000)
Joe Sacco, Palestine (2001)
Joe Sacco, Footnotes in Gaza (2009)
Phoebe Gloeckner, The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures (2002)
Craig Thompson, Blankets: An Illustrated Novel (2003)
Charles Burns, Black Hole (2005)
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006)
Shaun Tan, The Arrival (2006)
David B., Epileptic (2006)
Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese (2006)
Ulli Lust, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life (2008)
Gabrielle Bell, The Voyeurs (2012)
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell, March Vols I, II, and III (2013-2017)
Adrian Tomine, Killing and Dying (2015)
Ben Passmore, Your Black Friend and Other Strangers (2016)
Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing is Monsters (2017)
John Jennings & Stacey Robinson, Tony Medina, I am Alfonso Jones (2017)
Victoria Lomasko, Other Russias (2017)
Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir (2017)
John Jennings & Damian Duffy, Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (2018)
Nick Drnaso, Sabrina (2018)