Comics & Graphic Novels
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)