If you think comic books are just for kids, you should definitely reconsider and check out some of the awesome adult comic books & graphic novels the library has to offer. Comic Books are stories told through sequential art alongside dialogue and narrative, a combination that allows for a rich reading experience - requiring the use of linguistic literacy and visual literacy.
The term “Graphic Novel” is often used to refer to a longer format, but possibly to also distance the genre from some of the comic book stereotypes. Whatever you want to call them, here are some stand alone books and first issues to get you started.
Black Hole by Charles Burns
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Epileptic by David B.
Fables, Volume 1: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
Stitches by David Small
Unlovable, Volume 1: Tammy Pierce is Unlovable by Esther Pearl Watson
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Y: The Last Man, Volume 1: Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughan
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