 | The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Buy new: £10.17 / Used from: £8.50 A first hand account of the holcaust and the struggles of survivours' children. This book looks back the the cat and mouse history of cartoons and at racist propoganda.
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 | Batman: Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
Buy used from: £28.95 Reinstating batman while questioning the role of a vigilante in a democratic society. A very dark portrayl of Batman in line with a more gothic theme.
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 | When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.30 An elderly couple attempt to survive a nuclear attack by following government guidelines. Certain they will soon return to normality, the plot unfolds as they suffer radiation poisioning.
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 | Watchmen by Alan Moore
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £4.00 'Who watches the watchmen?' A close possible world where outlawed superheros attempt hatch and foil an elaborate plan to save mankind.
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 | My Troubles with Women by Robert Crumb
Buy new: £8.49 / Used from: £8.85 An unbridled fantasy outlet and confession booth of a rocky sexual career. His 60's fame brings with it the women who shunned him in high school.
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 | Cerebus (Cerebus, Book 1) by Dave Sim
Buy new: £14.32 / Used from: £10.95 The life of Cerebus an unheroic maverick motivated solely by personal gain. Dragged into his superiors political games leads him to explore his ideological and philosophical conceptions.
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 | The Nikopol Trilogy by Enki Bilal
Buy used from: £114.82 Returned after a cryogenic prison sentence Nikopol becomes a pawn in bigger plans. A vision of dystopia with geopolitical and temporal anomalies and a promise of immortality.
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 | The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue (Will Eisner Library) by W Eisner
Buy new: £15.37 / Used from: £13.46 Jewish immigrant life in the bronx. A devout man is betrayed by god when his daughter dies. Tough yet compassionate urban fables.
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 | It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken: A Picture Novella by "Seth"
Buy used from: £11.96 A look to the simpler life of the past by a man depressed by the pace of modern society. This journey leads him to re-asses his past and his relationships, and reveal the sadness of a lost era.
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 | From Hell by Alan Moore
Buy new: £14.97 / Used from: £13.86 A whydunnit tale of Jack the Ripper. Alan Moore delves for meaning and mythology in the evidence of the murders of five women, revealing timeless patterns in power, class, society and sexuality.
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 | The New American Splendor Anthology: From Off the Streets of Cleveland by Harvey Pekar
Buy new: £10.28 / Used from: £4.80 Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.' The magic of the mundane and everyday experiences, Pekar shares the 'splendor' of life.
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 | Black Hole by Charles Burns
Buy new: £10.15 / Used from: £8.99 An unknown STD causes the youth of a small town to undergo mutations. Peoples attempts to hide or reveal their new features leads to the formation of a community hiding in the woods.
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 | Palestine by Joe Sacco
Buy new: £8.96 / Used from: £5.99 Accounts of Palestinian life from over 100 interviews collected in 1991. More graphic than the mainstream news reports of the events this novel expounds the events of a lived in Palestinian reality.
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 | Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £2.37 Two friends grow up and apart in the pressure of life after high school.
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 | Lost Girls Collected by Alan Moore
Buy used from: £29.17 3 vastly different women meet on the eve of WWI, they recant the tales of their first erotic experiences. Sensitively this story defines the simplistic and natural exploration of the pleasure of sex.
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 | Buddha: Kapilavastu by Osama Tezuka
Buy used from: £8.95 Prince Siddhartha's quest for enlightenment by Osamu Tezuka. Great depth combined with light hearted comedy creates opposites which work together conveying the emotional, spiritual awakening.
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 | Sin City: Hard Goodbye Bk. 1 (Sin City (Dark Horse)) by Frank Miller
Buy new: £8.00 / Used from: £2.18 A violent series of redemption and revenge in Sin City. Black as black can be.
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 | Barefoot Gen Vol.1: No. 1: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima by Keiji Nakazawa
Buy new: £7.21 / Used from: £5.04 A miraculous survivor of hiroshima recounts his auto-biographical story surrounding the aftermath of the bombings. A passionate and moving memoir of nuclear weaponry.
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 | Epileptic by David B.
Buy new: £8.97 / Used from: £6.51 One boys escapist attempts to come to terms with battling his brothers illness. A angry yet loving plea for understanding from his parents and his brother.
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 | Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds
Buy new: £7.18 / Used from: £3.90 An updated version of Madame Bovray, literatures most infamous adulteress. Discontented Gemma's diaries reveal her tragic fall into ennui, debt and adultery.
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 | Ballad of the Salt Sea (Corto Maltese Adventure S.) by Hugo Pratt
Buy used from: £30.00 Voyages of a selfless and self-interested adventurer lead him to witness the turning points of western history. Sweeping romantic adventure.
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 | V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Buy used from: £6.15 Big Brother descends on England, racial and sexual deviants are sent to experimentation camps. An anarchistic icon attempts to free man from its captors. A fantastic eulogy to freedom and radicalism.
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 | The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes (The Sandman) by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £7.77 / Used from: £5.47 A modern mythological account of a family of seven symbolic beings, incl. Death, Destiny, Morpheus and Desire. Steeped in literary and legendary reference.
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 | Locas: A Love and Rockets Book (Love and Rockets Books) by Jaime Hernandez
Buy new: £24.69 / Used from: £21.61 Crazy women coming of age in 1980s punk revolution. An emotional look at the maturing of Maggie, who defines herself amongst questions of race, class and gender.
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 | The Adventures of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
Buy used from: £10.74 A 36yr old journey's to meet his father for the first time. This story charts the breakdown of a family through lack of parental affection. Cartoons take on real personas in a highly evocative novel.
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