Dinotopia - one of the most beautiful picture books you will ever read, painting to stagger and amaze, a world entire, and at its heart, a touching story about father and son.

Blankets is an autobiographical coming of age story of someone breaking away and breaking through.

The Classic Gaiman and McKean Showcase, a bizarre, evocative story that draws on childhood memories of a visit to an orthodonist, a family domestic and Capone's Chicago.

Sandman #18 'Dream of a Thousand Cats' and #19 'A Midsummer's Night Dream' are two of the best single comic book stories ever told, collected in 'Dream Country' Book #3 of the cult Sandman series.

The Hobbit graphic novel, elegantly condensed and beautifully drawn. The definitive Smaug.

Beautiful and brutal, check 3's famous last words, 'Uh oh' - maybe the most brutal frame in comica. Grant Morrison scripts and Frank Quitely draws. Once seen, never forgotten.

The fleshcrawling, bonechilling origins of Arkham Asylum, as written by Grant Morrison and exquisitely rendered by Dave McKean. Batman in a world of insanity. Goosebumps in spades.

A gun, 100 untraceable bullets and guaranteed immunity. What would you do? Book 4 of 13 in a criminal tale of feuding dynasties that makes the Borgias look like the Waltons.

The End-Times for a whole raft of superheroes; Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, all drawn by industry leviathan Alex Ross, for whom superlatives aren't enough. Arguably the best artist in comics.

Classic Manga as it should be and too rarely is, a thrill ride with samurai warriors, debauchery, action, violence, sex and war, in a broken feudalistic Japan.

Commando, for many, a childhood nostalgia trip with war stories galore.

Ghoulish, good fun, a rollicking, knockabout jaunt through the dark realm of the supernatural. Mignola is a master of the form combining simplicity with a knack for horror.