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 Prize- winning 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 super- powered 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