4.10 avg rating — 1,123 ratings

"Beautiful and absurd semi-fictionalized account of the authors Grandfather and his journey establishing a colony in the jungle."

4.09 avg rating — 2,327 ratings

"Occasionally explicit story of ants and the weird world they live in. Lots of philosophical wonderings - some tongue-in-cheek. Funny but immersive."

3.92 avg rating — 4,139 ratings

"Probably the most explicit book on this list. Lots of drug use and sexual content. Brutally funny satire of meandering, depressed twenty-somethings."

3.71 avg rating — 167 ratings

"Goofy art-school-rooted slapstick. A bit explicit at times with a sort of bathroom graffiti vibe."

3.82 avg rating — 103 ratings

4.08 avg rating — 24,707 ratings

"A heartbreaking and difficult book (both in subject at times and in the intricate zig-zag reading required) that spans the life of a man with side-trips to past generations. Explores the banality of everyday life and the difficulties in the unexceptional."

4.18 avg rating — 17,428 ratings

"A comic for the New Yorker crowd. A non-linear travel through time focusing exclusively on one specific corner of a room over thousands of years."

3.82 avg rating — 79,711 ratings

"A classic. The storyof two bored girls dealing with the creeps and weirdos in their small town. Most people know it from the movie (with Scarlett Johanson, Steve Buscemi, etc.)"

4.06 avg rating — 540 ratings

"A beautiful but difficult book about loss. Collected from the artists notebooks after the death of his fiancee."

3.70 avg rating — 281 ratings

4.49 avg rating — 257 ratings

"One of the great old newspaper comics. A nihilistic mouse, the cat who loves him and the dog sheriff trying to keep them both in line. Hard to go wrong with any volume or year. "

4.05 avg rating — 8,486 ratings

"Like a David Lynch movie turned into a comic. Strange and surreal with a black sense of humor. Very different from Ghost World."

3.85 avg rating — 53,012 ratings

"A horror story involving a group of exiled high school kids and a disfiguring STD."

4.11 avg rating — 1,108 ratings

"Cleveland native writes of the banalities of everyday life with a rotating cast of illustrators. Classic midwestern life. Better for older folks."

3.86 avg rating — 1,548 ratings

"When in doubt grab any of these. Wide range of material from funny to arty to stark non-fiction. This is the first year and one of the best. Other personal favorites are 2007 (ed. Chris Ware) 2009 (ed. Charles Burns) 2012 (ed. Francoise Mouly)."

3.33 avg rating — 9,167 ratings

"Somewhere along the lines of Badlands or Bonnie & Clyde. A misunderstood High School couple run away and get into some bad situations. Good for teenagers but dark and a bit explicit."

3.81 avg rating — 7,099 ratings

"The first in a short trilogy (followed by The Hive and concluding with Sugar Skull) dealing with dementia, mistakes of the past and misremembered moments. Filtered through a wild Tin Tin influenced psychedelic dream world for the most part."

3.88 avg rating — 208 ratings

"Two friends on an adventure through a strange sci-fi world. Definite 80s preteen adventure movie feeling throughout."

4.40 avg rating — 205,571 ratings

4.06 avg rating — 125,699 ratings

4.22 avg rating — 28,967 ratings