Welcome to the Graphic Novels Library Research Guide
Graphic novels are sequential art form book-length comics. They can be fiction or non-fiction, and memoirs are a very popular form. Take a look on this page at the graphic novels available in the Madison College Libraries, and also take a look at books, articles, and web resources about graphic novels.
NOTE: Physical books and videos will not be available during the Coronavirus campus closures through May 18, 2020
Graphic Novels in the Madison College Libraries (A-H by title)
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9-11 by Call Number: 973.931 N714DCISBN: 1563898810Publication Date: 2002Stories from a diverse array of writers and artists provoked by the events of September 11. -
A. D. : New Orleans after the deluge by Call Number: 976.3 N482ISBN: 037571488XPublication Date: 2010Stories of survival in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina. -
Abandoned Cars by Call Number: 741.5973 L265ISBN: 1606993410Publication Date: 2010Noirish narratives. -
Abina and the Important Men by Call Number: 306.362092 AB148ISBN: 9780199844395Publication Date: 2012Graphic history of a wrongfully enslaved West African woman named Abina. -
Adulthood Is a Myth by Call Number: 741.5973 AN544ISBN: 9781449474195Publication Date: 2016Shares the awkwardness of young modern life such as body image, self-consciousness, and introversion. -
American Born Chinese by Call Number: 741.5973 Y22ISBN: 0312384483Publication Date: 2008Chronicles a boy at a new school where he is the only Chinese-American student. -
American Widow by Call Number: 741.5973 T693ISBN: 0345500695Publication Date: 2008September 11 as a personal tragedy. -
Andre the Giant by Call Number: 741.5973092 AN555ISBN: 1596438517Publication Date: 2014Story of Andre Roussimoff , the lovable giant in The Princess Bride and a pro wrestler who died tragically young. -
The Arrival by Call Number: 741.5973 T161ISBN: 0439895294Publication Date: 2007A story of the immigrant experience. -
As the World Burns by Call Number: 363.7 J54ISBN: 1583227776Publication Date: 2008Graphic novel satire of modern environmental policy. -
Asterios Polyp by Call Number: 741.5973 M478AISBN: 0307377326Publication Date: 2009Tale of a middle-aged man whose life is upended when he moves to a small town after his New York City apartment goes up in flames. -
Autobiographix by Call Number: 741.5979 AU939ISBN: 1593070381Publication Date: 2003Graphic autobiographical short stories. -
Barefoot Gen by Call Number: 940.5425 N163 V.1ISBN: 0867196025Publication Date: 2004Recounts the bombing of Hiroshima from the perspective of a young boy named Gen, focusing on how ordinary people suffer from war. -
The Beats by Call Number: 810.90054 P379BISBN: 0809016494Publication Date: 2010Explores the generation that in the face of American conformity was known for its uprootedness, addictions, and creativity. -
Black Panther: World of Wakanda by Call Number: 741.5973 G285BISBN: 9781302906504Publication Date: 2017The world building of Wakanda continues. -
Blankets by Call Number: 741.5973 T469ISBN: 1891830430Publication Date: 2003A story of the sibling rivalry of two brothers and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers in Wisconsin and Michigan's U.P. -
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Call Number: 741.5973 D325ISBN: 0375421912Publication Date: 2002In 1933 Teddy Mishkin is hard at work on his latest cartoon short for Waldo the Cat. In his head, Waldo is real and his helpful assistant. -
Breakdowns by Call Number: 741.5 SP75BISBN: 0375423958Publication Date: 2008Seminal works by Spiegelman that changed how comics are made and appreciated today. -
Buddha by Call Number: 741.5952 T356ISBN: 193223456XPublication Date: 2006Follows the prince Siddhartha as he runs away from home, travels across India, and questions Hindu practices. -
Burma Chronicles by Call Number: 741.5971 D354BISBN: 177046025XPublication Date: 2010Examines a country using concealment and isolation as social control. -
Cairo by Call Number: 741.5973 W746ISBN: 1401217346Publication Date: 2008Follows four humans and a genie as they navigate Cairo's streets and spiritual underworld to find a stolen hooka. -
Charles Darwin's on the Origin of Species by Call Number: 576.82 K29ISBN: 1605299480Publication Date: 2009Graphic adaptation of Darwin's classic. -
A Chinese Life by Call Number: 951.05092ISBN: 1906838550Publication Date: 2012Chronicles the rise and reign of Chairman Mao Zedong against the backdrop of the creation of the People's Republic of China. -
Climate Changed by Call Number: 551.6 Sq23cISBN: 1419712551Publication Date: 2014Looks at our planet and how we live on it as it explores global warming. -
Combustion by Call Number: 741.5 L287ISBN: 1560973145Publication Date: 2000Part "The Thin Red Line," part "All Quiet On the Western Front," part Vietnam War, and part something else. -
A Dangerous Woman by Call Number: 335.83092 G619ISBN: 1595580646Publication Date: 2007Retelling of the famous anarchist and radical icon Emma Goldman's extraordinary life. -
Dante's Divine Comedy by Call Number: 741.5973 H477ISBN: 1608190846Publication Date: 2010Graphic novel version of "Dante's Divine Comedy." -
David Boring by ISBN: 0375714529Publication Date: 2002Things go awry for a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured inner life when he meets the girl of his dreams. -
Decade by Call Number: Short StoriesISBN: 1569711798Publication Date: 1997Short stories produced to celebrate the tenth anniversary of noted graphic novel publisher Dark Horse Comics. -
Drinking at the Movies by Call Number: 741.5973 W499ISBN: 9781927668269Publication Date: 2015Wrenching coming-of-age tale. -
Egon Schiele by Call Number: 741.5944 C839ISBN: 9781770859401Publication Date: 2017Evocative depiction based on the life of the Austro-Hungarian artist known for drawing nudes whose short career spanned the turn of the 20th century. -
Epileptic by Call Number: 741.5944 B111ISBN: 0375714685Publication Date: 2006Hailed as one of Europe's most important and innovative comics artists, David B. writes about growing up with an epileptic brother. -
Footnotes in Gaza by Call Number: 956.04 SA119ISBN: 0805092773Publication Date: 2010Sacco immerses himself in Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, has long been a notorious flashpoint in the bitter Middle East conflict. -
Fun Home by Call Number: 741.5973 W746ISBN: 0618871713Publication Date: 2007Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. -
Gauguin by Call Number: 759.4092 D696ISBN: 9781910593271Publication Date: 2017Biography of an artist whose whose talents as a painter would have an enormous influence on the art of Picasso, Matisse, and many more. -
Genius, Isolated: the Life and Art of Alex Toth by Call Number: 741.53973 T717MISBN: 1600108288Publication Date: 2011Eisner Award-winning team's biography of Alex Toth. -
Ghost World by Call Number: 741.5 C648ISBN: 1560974273Publication Date: 2004Quasi-autobiographical story following the adventures of two teenage girls facing the prospect of growing up and apart. -
Glacial Period by Call Number: 741.5944 D278ISBN: 1561634832Publication Date: 2007Story set thousands of years hence in a glacial period where human history has been forgotten and a small group falls upon the Louvre, buried in snow. -
The Golem's Mighty Swing by Call Number: 741.5973 ST936ISBN: 1896597459Publication Date: 2002Follows a barnstorming Jewish baseball team in the 1920's who travel from town to town earning a living by playing local squads. -
The Handmaid's Tale (Graphic Novel) by ISBN: 9780385539241Publication Date: 2019In Margaret Atwood's dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. -
The Harlem Hellfighters by Call Number: 741.5973 B873ISBN: 0307464970Publication Date: 2014Story of the highly decorated, barrier-breaking, historic black regiment--the Harlem Hellfighters of World War I. -
Hostage by Call Number: 364.154092 D354ISBN: 9781770462793Publication Date: 2017Story of Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe Andr, who was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination. -
Hyperbole and a Half by Call Number: 741.5973 B874ISBN: 1451666179Publication Date: 2014Showcases Brosh's unique voice, wit, and ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations.
Graphic Novels in the Madison College Libraries (I-Z by title)
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I Moved to Los Angeles to Work in Animation by ISBN: 9781684152919Publication Date: 2019When artist Tally Nourigat left her life in Portland to move to Los Angeles and pursue a job in animation, she realized that despite her research, nothing truly prepared her for the wild world that awaited in the studios of Southern California. -
I Was Their American Dream by Call Number: 741.5973 G411ISBN: 9780525575115Publication Date: 2019I Was Their American Dream is at once a journal of growing up and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children. -
Imagine Wanting Only This by Call Number: 741.5973 R131ISBN: 9781101870839Publication Date: 2017After the sudden death of a beloved uncle and the sight of an abandoned mining town, the author begins a lifelong fascination with ruins and people left behind. -
Incognegro by Call Number: 741.5973 J665ISBN: 140121097XPublication Date: 2008In the early 20th century, when lynchings were commonplace in the American South, a few brave reporters - light-skinned African-Americans - risked their lives to expose the truth, known as 'going incognegro'. -
In the Shadow of No Towers by Call Number: 973.931 SP742ISBN: 0375423079Publication Date: 2004Spiegelman bore witness to the attacks in his lower Manhattan neighborhood. -
Introducing Fascism by Call Number: 335.6 HOODISBN: 1848316127Publication Date: 2013Graphic guide to the political movements and philosophical roots of fascism. -
It Was the War of the Trenches by Call Number: 741.5944 T181ISBN: 1606993534Publication Date: 2010Illustrates the day to day of the grunts in the trenches during World War I. -
J. Edgar Hoover: a Graphic Biography by Call Number: 363.25092 H789ISBN: 0809095033Publication Date: 2008J. Edgar Hoover's life becomes a timely and pointed guide to everything from Prohibition to cold war espionage. -
Jerusalem by Call Number: 741.5 D971ISBN: 1770460713Publication Date: 2012Offers a cultural road map of contemporary Jerusalem. -
Journalism by Call Number: 355.0209 SA119ISBN: 0805097937Publication Date: 2013Takes readers from the smuggling tunnels of Gaza to war-crimes trials in The Hague, from the lives of India's "untouchables" to the suffering in Iraq, and more. -
Killing and Dying by ISBN: 9781770462090Publication Date: 2015"One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time." --Wired -
Logicomix by Call Number: 741.5 D752ISBN: 1596914521Publication Date: 2009Recounts the spiritual odyssey of philosopher Bertrand Russell. -
Love Is Love by Call Number: 741.56973 L897ISBN: 9781631409394Publication Date: 2017In honor of those killed in Orlando, some of the greatest talent in comics offer stories mourning the victims and supporting the survivors. -
Lumberjanes to the Max Edition Vol. 1 by Call Number: 741.5 W973ISBN: 9781608868094Publication Date: 2016Eisner Award-winning series presented in a deluxe hardcover for the first time follows the adventures of a group of women at Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady-Types. -
March. Book One by Call Number: 741.5 L674ISBN: 1603093001Publication Date: 2013Vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, including his key roles in the historic 1963 March on Washington and the 1965 Selma-Montgomery March. -
March. Book Two by Call Number: 741.5 L587ISBN: 9781603094009Publication Date: 2015Congressman John Lewis, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, continues his award-winning graphic novel trilogy. -
Maus by ISBN: 0394747232Publication Date: 1986Story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself. -
Notes from a Defeatist by Call Number: 741.5973 SA119ISBN: 1560975105Publication Date: 2003The story of Sacco's mother's harrowing experiences in Malta in WWII, and his impassioned reflection on the Gulf War. -
Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths by Call Number: 741.5 M952ISBN: 1770460411Publication Date: 2011Semi-autobiographical account from the preeminent figure of Gekiga about the desperate final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of World War II. -
Other Lives by Call Number: 741.5973 B144ISBN: 1401219020Publication Date: 2010Explores people's identities and how the two become confused through the Internet and role-playing games. -
Over Easy by Call Number: 741.5973 P773ISBN: 9781770461536Publication Date: 2014A fast-paced semi-memoir about diners, drugs, and California in the 1970s. -
Pablo by Call Number: 759.6 P58bISBN: 9781906838942Publication Date: 2015Award-winning graphic biography of Pablo Picasso. -
Palestine by Call Number: 956.94054 SA119ISBN: 156097432XPublication Date: 2001Based on Sacco's visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s, where he interviewed Palestinians and Jews. -
Pedro and Me by Call Number: 362.1969792 W772ISBN: 0805089640Publication Date: 2009Pedro Zamora, the HIV-positive AIDS educator who appeared on MTV's The Real World: San Francisco, is remembered by Pedro's roommate on the show. -
Persepolis by Call Number: 955.0542092 SA253CISBN: 0375714839Publication Date: 2007Here, in one volume is Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir of her unforgettable childhood and coming of age in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution. -
The Photographer by Call Number: 070.4909581ISBN: 1596433752Publication Date: 2009Reporter's record of a journey through Afghanistan accompanying Doctors Without Borders. -
Pride of Baghdad by Call Number: 741.5973 V371ISBN: 1401203159Publication Date: 2008In 2003, a pride of lions escaped from the Baghdad Zoo during an American bombing raid. Lost and confused, hungry but free, the four lions roamed the decimated streets of Baghdad. -
Pulp Affliction by Call Number: 741.5973 L657ISBN: 9781973217169Publication Date: 2018Artwork done by Madison College Student Michael Edwards.Satirical story about contemporary society, superhero narratives, and life in general. -
Pyongyang by Call Number: 741.5971 D354ISBN: 1897299214Publication Date: 2007Observations from Delisle, one of the few Westerners to be allowed access to the fortress-like country of North Korea. -
The Quitter by Call Number: 741.5973 P367QISBN: 140120399XPublication Date: 2005Pekar's work, memorialized in the movie American Splendor, is an ongoing chronicle of his life. -
Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling by Call Number: 364.973 J79ISBN: 1595585419Publication Date: 2013Argues against mass incarceration in the United States by showing the impact on communities of color. -
Relish by Call Number: 741.5973 K71ISBN: 1596436239Publication Date: 2013Traces key episodes in the suthor's life, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life. -
Saga by Call Number: 741.5973 V364ISBN: 9781632150783Publication Date: 2014Hugo Award-winning story. -
Showa, 1938-1944: A History of Japan by Call Number: 741.5973 MizISBN: 1770461515Publication Date: 2014Details Japan in World War II. -
Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives From Black History by Call Number: 973.0496 G41ISBN: 9781938486296Publication Date: 2014Collection of stories highlighting African American history. -
Tale of One Bad Rat by Call Number: 741.5973 T138ISBN: 1595824936Publication Date: 2010Follows Helen Potter, sexually abused as a child, on a journey through urban and rural England along the same path author Beatrix Potter once took. -
They Called Us Enemy by Call Number: 940.531773 T136ISBN: 9781603094504Publication Date: 2019Graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. -
Threadbare by Call Number: 364.1551 M821ISBN: 9781621067399Publication Date: 2016Draws the connections between the international sex and garment trades and human trafficking in an illustrated comics series. -
Unflattening by Call Number: 741.5 S725uISBN: 9780674744431Publication Date: 2015Defies conventional forms of scholarly discourse to offer readers both a work of graphic art and an inquiry into the ways humans construct knowledge. -
Vincent by Call Number: 759.3 G557ISBN: 9781906838799Publication Date: 2015Documents the brief and intense period of creativity Van Gogh spent in Arles. -
Watchmen by Call Number: 741.5973 M821ISBN: 0930289234Publication Date: 1995Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes. -
We Stand on Guard by Call Number: 741.5973 V371WISBN: 1534301410Publication Date: 2017Set 100 years in our future, the story follows a heroic band of Canadian civilians turned freedom fighters who must defend their homeland from invasion by a technologically superior opponent...the United States of America. -
Will Eisner Reader by Call Number: 741.5973 EI36ISBN: 0393328074Publication Date: 2008Short stories from a graphic novels icon. -
Yo, Miss by Call Number: 741.5973 W644ISBN: 9781621062196Publication Date: 2015Takes readers inside a second-chance high school in New York City where all the students are considered at-risk.
