Genre Boot Camp
Kentucky Public Library Association Preconference
April 10, 2014
Adult Graphic Novels by Genre
Biographies, Autobiographies, & Memoirs
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Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo,
and Me: A Graphic Memoir By Ellen Forney
Maus By Art Speigelman
Persepolis By Marjane Satrapi
Fun Home By Alison Bechdel
Blankets By Craig Thompson
Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland by Harvey Pekar
Westerns
• Loveless By Brian Azzarello
• Bouncer By Alexandro Jodorowsky and Francois
Boucq
• Law of the Desert Born By Louis L'Amour &
Charles Santino
• All Star Western By Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray
• East To West By Jonathan Hickman
• Dead West By Rick Spears
Romance
• Happy Marriage?! By Maki Enjoji
• Love and Capes By Thomas F. Zahler
• Blankets By Craig Thompson
• Stardust By Neil Gaiman
• You’ll Have that By Wesley Molebash
• Midnight Secretary By Tomu Ohmi
Crime and Suspense
• Sin City By Frank Miller
• Road to Perdition By Max Allan Collins
• A History of Violence By John Wagner
• Criminal By Ed Brubaker
• Sleeper By Ed Brubaker
• Kabuki By David Mack
• Chew By John Layman
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Science Fiction & Fantasy
• Fables By Bill Willingham
• Saga By Brian K. Vaughan
• The Sandman By Neil Gaiman
• Y the Last Man By Brian K. Vaughan
• We3 By Grant Morrison
• League of Extraordinary Gentlemen BY Alan
Moore
• Punk Rock Jesus By Sean Murphy
Horror
• The Walking Dead By Robert Kirkman
• American Vampire By Scott Snyder
• Locke and Key By Joe Hill
• From Hell By Alan Moore
• Bedlam By Nick Spencer
• 30 Days of Night By David Lapham
• Constantine By Jeff Lemire
Life (or something like it)
• Chicken with Plums By Marjane Satrapi
• Building Stories By Chris Ware
• It’s a Good Life if You Don’t Weaken By Seth
• Ghost World By Daniel Clowes
• Epileptic By David B.
• Strangers in Paradise By Terry Moore
• Scott Pilgrim By Bryan Lee O’Malley
Graphic Novels from Other Series
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Firefly
• Dresden Files
• The Exile
• Moon Called
• Derrick Storm
Genre Boot Camp
Kentucky Public Library Association Preconference
April 10, 2014
20 Graphic Novels Every Library Should Have
Non-Fiction
Individual Novels
Understanding Comics: The Invisible
Art
Blankets
Maus
Persepolis
Finished Collections
Sin City
Scott Pilgram
Y the Last Man
Road to Perdition
Kick-Ass
Ex- Machina
300
A Covenant with God
The Dark Knight Returns
The Watchmen
V For Vendetta
The Dark Knight Returns
Current Series
Fables
Hellboy
Sandman (Sandman Overture started
10/13)
The Walking Dead
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