# The greatest graphic novels of all time

The comics that show up at the top of every best graphic novel list, from Watchmen and Maus to Persepolis and Saga.

- 37 votes · 20 items
- Jul 19, 2020 · Orla McCarthy
- https://even.best/en/l/2217/the-greatest-graphic-novels-of-all-time

## Top 20

1. **Batman: The Killing Joke** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Alan Moore and Brian Bolland, 1988. The Joker's possible origin.
2. **Persepolis** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Marjane Satrapi, 2000-2003. Growing up in Iran after the revolution.
3. **Batman: The Dark Knight Returns** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Frank Miller, 1986. An old, angry Batman comes back.
4. **Watchmen** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, 1986-1987. The superhero taken apart.
5. **The Sandman** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Neil Gaiman and others, 1989-1996. The Lord of Dreams and his family.
6. **All-Star Superman** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, 2005-2008. Superman's last labours.
7. **Y: The Last Man** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, 2002-2008. Every male mammal dies except one.
8. **Maus** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Art Spiegelman, 1980-1991. The Holocaust told with mice and cats; first comic to win a Pulitzer.
9. **The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, from 1999. Victorian fiction's heroes team up.
10. **V for Vendetta** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Alan Moore and David Lloyd, 1982-1989. A masked anarchist against a fascist Britain.
11. **Fun Home** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Alison Bechdel, 2006. A memoir about her father and herself.
12. **Black Hole** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Charles Burns, 1995-2005. A teenage plague in 1970s Seattle.
13. **March** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell, 2013-2016. The civil rights movement from the inside.
14. **Hellboy: Seed of Destruction** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Mike Mignola, 1994. The demon who works for the good guys.
15. **Saga** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples, since 2012. Space opera about a family on the run.
16. **From Hell** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, 1989-1998. Jack the Ripper and Victorian London.
17. **The Incal** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius, 1980-1988. Cosmic sci-fi that inspired a generation.
18. **Through the Woods** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Emily Carroll, 2014. Five eerie fairy-tale horror stories.
19. **Blacksad** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido, since 2000. Noir detective stories with animals.
20. **Nimona** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — ND Stevenson, 2015. A shapeshifter and a villain who isn't one.

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