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Graphic Novels & Comics Collection- University Library

Explore our New Graphic Novels & Comics Collection on the Fab Fourth!

The University Libraries Graphic Novels & Comics Collection includes:

Graphic novels (fiction)
Graphic narratives (non-fiction)
Comic book collections
Collections of comic strips
Scholarly criticism on the above genres.

The collection is in response to the growing interest in the study of graphic story telling in the fields of English Studies, Communications Studies, Cultural Studies, and Art.

View list of titles in the Graphic Novels collection (updated monthly)

Visit the collection on the fourth floor University Library.

Highlights from the Collection

Absolute Promethea by Alan Moore; J. H. Williams (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1401228429

Originally published in single magazine form as Promethea #13-23 by DC Comics, 2001-2003.
All Star Superman by Grant Morrison; Frank Quitely (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1401232051

The amazing creative team of writer Grant Morrison (BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM) and artist Frank Quitely (WE3) join forces to take Superman back to basics and create a new vision of the World's First Super-Hero.
Annotated Sandman Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman
ISBN: 1401233325

New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman's transcendent series SANDMAN is often hailed as the definitive Vertigo title and one of the finest achievements in graphic storytelling. Gaiman created an unforgettable tale of the forces that exist beyond life and death by weaving ancient mythology, folklore and fairy tales with his own distinct narrative vision.
Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
ISBN: 0618982507

From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine’s No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.
Cairo by G. Willow Wilson; Travis Lanham (Contribution by); M. K. Perker
ISBN: 1401211402

Journalist G. Willow Wilson brings an extraordinary fable to Vertigo in October with CAIRO, an original graphic novel illustrated by Turkish artist M.K. Perker, himself a contributor to The New York Times and The New Yorker.
Echo by Terry Moore (Artist)
ISBN: 1892597489

Julie is in the wrong place at the wrong time and becomes an unwilling participant in a web of murder and deceit that becomes nuclear!
Making Comics by Scott McCloud
ISBN: 0060780940

Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a massive comic book about comics, linking the medium to such diverse fields as media theory, movie criticism, and web design. In Reinventing Comics, McCloud took this to the next level, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are generated, read, and perceived today. Now, in Making Comics, McCloud focuses his analysis on the art form itself, exploring the creation of comics, from the broadest principles to the sharpest details (like how to accentuate a character's facial muscles in order to form the emotion of disgust rather than the emotion of surprise.) And he does all of it in his inimitable voice and through his cartoon stand–in narrator, mixing dry humor and legitimate instruction. McCloud shows his reader how to master the human condition through word and image in a brilliantly minimalistic way.
Marbles by Ellen Forney
ISBN: 1592407323

Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between "crazy" and "creative" in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers.
Superhero by Peter Coogan; Denny O'Neil (Introduction by)
ISBN: 193226518X

An entertaining and exhaustive history, tracing the superhero's roots in mythology, science fiction, and pulps, which follows the genre's development to its current renaissance in film, literature, and graphic novels.
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
ISBN: 0679406417

On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here is the definitive edition of the book acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal)
Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary by Justin Green
ISBN: 193478155X

A lost classic of underground cartooning, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is Justin Green’s autobiographical portrayal of his struggle with religion and his own neuroses.
Make It Rain by Greg Pak; Victor Ibanez; Matteo Buffagni (Artist); Scott Hepburn (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0785191615

On an ongoing mission to foster goodwill and safeguard both mankind and mutants, Ororo Munroe will travel the globe, confronting villains, gods, monsters and everything in between. She will overthrow tyrants, quell tsunamis and strive to see her dream for the world realized. She is Storm, a hero like no other... and the skies will tremble at the sight of their namesake. But now, Storm must handle the fallout caused by familiar faces from her past. Collecting: Storm 1-6