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Would recommend some Alison Bechdel - already mentioned here.
Another vote for anything and everything by Posy Simmonds
Asterios Polyp - weird and brilliant.

I have not read many but highly rate 'Maus' and 'Persepolis'.

I have just bought 'Palestine' as a Christmas present for my sister. Has anybody read it?

X Men Noir, the Firefly series and The Walking Deads.

Agree with Sin City, V for Vendetta and Watchmen.

Keep hearing amazing things about Maus, it's on my Christmas list

Tamara Drewe by Posy Simmonds - brilliant!

Oh, and Dark Entries, by Ian Rankin

Preacher
Hellblazer
Maus
Slaine

I really liked Pure by Andrew Miller. It's about digging up an old graveyard in Paris in the 18th century

Hoe you enjoy it Surgeonsmate. I'm waiting for Vol. 2, and I have no patience :-)

Also remembered 'Castle Waiting' - which might be out of print. Its a weird story- nothing much happens, but its completely charming and the art work is brilliant. It reads as though written by Neil Gaiman on a really happy day. Its set in the world of Sleeping Beauty- but after she has recovered and gone off with her prince charming. The castle becomes a refuge for fairy tale characters. I can't really describe it, but it's touching without being schmaltzy

Ooh, lionsntigersnbears that Saga looks like our sort of thing, I have ordered volume one for DHs Christmas. I just hope amazon isn't busy Recommending it to him!

Seconding Persepolis!

C4ro, we were massive fans of the bleach anime but it finished for ever in a really lame way.

Some of these sound amazing, can't wait to get ebaying!

Most have been got but I also love Barry Ween, Boy Genius; Girl Genius- both sort of inventor+gadget romps. Ranma; Bleach in Manga both great although I found Bleach dies out a bit around 30 (it's on 40+ now). Mouseguard is very pretty. Logicomix is on the level of Persepolis/ Maus for the complicated end of GN with a message. Order of the Stick just for fun.

I read When the Wind Blows when I was 11 and was terrified for most of my teens.

There's one about the author's brother's epilepsy which had very good reviews, but I haven't read it and can't remember the author or title.

Must try Joe Hill's graphic stuff, I liked Heart Shaped Box (although v v reminiscent of some of his dad's work!).

Currently using 'When The Wind Blows' to generate dramatic monologues for my year 11s - it's surprised me how moved they were by it.

I suspect they weren't written for my age group but I love 'Calamity Jack' and 'Rapunzel's Revenge' by Shannon and Dean Hale.

Amusing, exciting, well drawn, really lighthearted and escapist fantasy. My daughter and I 'share' them, they are perfect for tweens/teens as well.

'When the Wind Blows' and also 'Ethel and Ernest' by Raymond Briggs made me sob my heart out for different reasons. 'Safe Area Gorazde' broke my heart completely.

Re Sandman; basically, it has just been so popular that they keep re-issuing it in different formats in the hope people will buy it again. Me, I've got some tatty trade paperbacks with the pages falling out, about 20 years old; and also the 'Absolute' collection, that DH has been pleased to discover would do for Xmas and birthday presents for the past two years

You could legitmately skip 'Preludes and Nocturnes' and go straight to 'Dolls House' ;there is sufficient explanation to keep you on track, you could see if it's your sort of thing or not.

Oh, Joe Hill (Locke & Key) has also written some traditional-style (!?) novels; Horns and Heart-shaped box, both of which I liked.

Maus - amazing

Ooh, you buggers, virtually everything I came on to recommend has been said already.

Except Preacher! Great, but pretty violent.

So, series I have loved: Sandman, of course; Y the last man; Fables; Locke & Key; Joe Sacco's work...

Stand-alone books: Fun Home (have read recently the author has done a sequel), Stuck Rubber Baby (about growing up gay in 60's USA)

If you find the books expensive, you can always look on eBay for them, if you just want the story and aren't too fussy about mint editions. Some of us are funding the DC's Xmas presents with judicious flogging .
Having looked it up, am now severely tempted to sell V for vendetta - I mean, how many times can you read it anyway? aargh....

The Sandman is awesome.

Also Martin Rowson's The Wasteland.

Fables is fantastic. Have only read the first 2 volumes of Y the Last Man, but enjoyed them.

Sandman very good too - there's 10 volumes of Sandman, starting with Preludes and Nocturnes.

The first volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was good, but the series went rapidly downhill after that IMO.

Also liked Akira.

Oh I love the Sandman, start with Preludes and Nocturnes and read the originals in the order they were written, and then decide if you can be arsed with the spin offs etc. IMO.

Yy to Y the Last Man as well.

I like Love and Rockets as well, especially teh Magge and Hopey stories. Also, Ghostworld.

Second Thesurgeonsmate's choices, especially Locke and Key which has to be the best series out there at the moment. I also loved Y! Saga is also good- aliens with a baby in tow fleeing persecution. Also Morning Glories- weird shennanigans set in a scary dystopian boarding school- is pretty good. I love Posy Simmonds too- I think the second one is called Tamara Drew (?).

You might like Barefoot Gen. It is similar in tone to Maus, but instead deals with the atomic bombings in Japan. It's a fascinating medium to use to to talk about trauma and survival.

YY I love Y - The Last Man too.

The whole thing is very expensive, though. The bound volumes of comic series cost as much as books (which is fair!) but they only take a fraction of the time to read.