Batman: Year one The story of Gotham City's Dark Knight ... who he is and how he
came to be, retold by comic master Frank Miller.
Genre: Superhero
Publisher: Titan Books
Ethel and Ernest A graphic memoir of the author/artist's parents from their marriage in
1930 to their deaths within a few months of each other in 1971.
Genre: Real life
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Go Girl! Young Lindsay Goldman has inherited super powers and has become
a teenage superheroine sensation, to the despair of her retired
mother.
Genre: Superhero
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Hamlet In this manga, young Hamlet's grief turns to something far darker
when the ghost of his recently deceased father appears to him.
Genre: Shakespeare, Adaptation
Publisher: SelfMadeHero
Hopeless Savages Two former punks who grew up (but never grew out of the lifestyle)
have a family of kids with names like Skank Zero and Arsenal Fierce.
Genre: Adventure, Real life, Comedy
Publisher: Oni Press
King Lear: Graphic Shakespeare Series Shakespeare's classic story of kingship, honour, and bloody
revenge, colourfully illustrated by Ian Pollack.
Genre: Shakespeare
Publisher: Can of Worms Enterprises Ltd
King Celebrated black cartoonist Ho Che Anderson traces the life and
career of civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., from
his birth to his assassination.
Genre: Historical
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Macbeth (Manga) Shakespeare's classic play of deception, intrigue and murder is
reinvented in the Japanese manga style.
Genre: Shakespeare
Publisher: Puffin Books
Macbeth Macbeth is available in three versions: with the original text,
reproduced in modern English, or in a 'quick text' version.
Genre: Shakespeare
Publisher: Classical Comics
The Complete Maus: a Survivor's Tale The Complete Maus explores Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prizewinning graphic novel about the Holocaust. It combines volumes I
and II of Maus.
Genre: History
Publisher: Penguin
Kindaichi Case Files Hajime Kindaichi is a teenage crime solver who uses ingenious
deduction to debunk ghosts, curses, myths or folklore.
Genre: Manga
Publisher: Tokyopop
Raymond Chandler's Marlowe A trio of graphic novels including The Pencil, Goldfish, and Trouble
is my Business. These are the first adaptations of Chandler stories.
Genre: Adaptations
Publisher: ibooks
Romeo and Juliet The story of young lovers torn apart by an ancient feud and
brought down by misguided help and unlucky coincidences.
Genre: Shakespeare
Publisher: Timber Frame Publications
Romeo and Juliet (Manga) Shakespeare's most famous love story with a manga twist. Two
lovers are caught up in a bitter feud between their Yakuza families.
Genre: Shakespeare, Adaptation
Publisher: SelfMadeHero
Runaways When six young friends discover their parents are secretly superpowered villains, they run away from home and straight into the
adventure of their lives.
Genre: Superhero
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Superman: End of the Century Superman and Lois Lane must save the world from the deranged
and super-powerful son of the former Mrs. Lex Luthor.
Genre: Superhero
Publisher: DC Comics/Titan Books
The Best of Ray Bradbury The world's best comic book artists have adapted Ray Bradbury's
best stories in a series of different graphic novel formats.
Genre: Adaptation
Publisher: ibooks
The Tale of One Bad Rat The beautiful and dramatic story of a talented teenage girl
struggling to regain self-worth and freedom from an abusive
childhood.
Genre: Real-life
Publisher: Titan Books
Ultimate Daredevil and Electra Columbia University freshman Elektra Natchios is prompted down a
path of violence and revenge after a series of malicious attacks on
her friends.
Genre: Superhero
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Ultimate Spiderman In a story retold for the twenty-first century, teenager Peter Parker
is bitten by an experimental spider, and develops super powers as a
result.
Genre: Superhero
Publisher: Marvel Comics