Favourite Comics

Mostly comics I once owned/borrowed that I really loved when I read them and that have meant a lot to me throughout my life.

Whenever I feel disheartened about starting an organization within comics, I go back to these, and I think of everyone I’ve met through comics who has cared.

I will probably continue to update this

Everything is Flammable by Gabrielle Bell

Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann & Kerascoët

Susceptible
by Geneviève Castrée

Delphine by Richard Sala

My Favourite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris

Somnabulance by Fiona Smyth

Meatcake by Dame Darcy

In-Between Days. (Teva Harrison)

Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

Alone by Chaboute

Earthling by Aisha Franz

Satania by by Fabien Vehlmann & Kerascoët

The End of Summer by Tillie Walden

Are You Listening by Tillie Waldon

Eden by Pablo Holmberg

Alienation
by Inés Estrada

Fluorescent Mud by Eli Howey

Picking Bones Zines by Keet G

Heartless by Nina Bunjevac

Your Black Friend by Ben Passmore

The Strange by Jerome Ruillier

Rat Time by Keiler Roberts

Look Straight Ahead by Elaine M. Will

Jane, the Fox, and Me
by Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault

Tomboy by Liz Prince

This One Summer by Jillian and Mariko Tamaki

Anna and Froga by Anouk Ricard

Your Turn, Adrian
by Helena Öberg

The Unsinkable Walker Bean series by Aaron Renier

Drawing Power

Back and Forth by Marta Chudolinska

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Long Red Hair by Meags Fitzgerald

Skim by Jillian and Mariko Tamaki

Death, Duck, and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch

Moon Man by Tomi Ungerer

Elsa and the Night
by Jöns Mellgren

Summer Blonde by Adrian Tomine

One! Hundred! Demons! by Lynda Barry

High Socks New Jersey 1950 by Paula Lawrie

Boody Rogers

Romance Without Tears, a fascinating collection of 50s love comics. And i think the first graphic novel I ever owned?

The Portable Frank by Jim Woodring

Black Hole by Charles Burns

My New York Diary by Julie Doucet

My Most Secret Desire by Julie Doucet

Cecil and Jordan in New York: Stories by Gabrielle Bell

The Weaver Festival Phenomenon by Ron Rege Jr.

Follow The Doll (issue 1) by Daryl Seitchik

Black is the Color by Julia Gfrörer

As You Wish by Jamiyla Lowe

No Romance in Hell by Hyena Hell

On Loving Women
by Diane Obomsawin

Little Boxes by Emelie Östergren

We Don’t Go Through the Angel Grass by Courtney Loberg

Upside Down by Tobias Tak

BTTM FDRS by Ezra Claytan Daniels

The World of Edena by Moebius

Beneath the Dead Oak Tree by Emily Carroll

Don’t Go Without Me by Rosemary Valero-O’connell

Seasonal Shift by Lala Albert

Becoming Horses by Disa Wallander

Virus Tropicale by Powerpaola

The Tenderness of Stones by Marion Fayolle

Unterzakhn by Leela Corman

Collected Don’t Fret by Jordan Reg. Aelick

The Green Hand and Other Stories by Nicole Claveloux

Funky Town by Mathilde Van Gheluwe

Dear Scarlet by Teresa Wong

The Wayside by Julie Morstad

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

Marbles Mania Depression Michelangelo and Me by Ellen Forney

Amygdala (issue 1) by Rose Bianchini

Weird Fishes by Jamaica Dyer

Moomin by Tove Jansson

Nine Ways to Disappear by Lilli Carré

Young Frances by Hartley Lin

When I’m Old and Other Stories by Gabrielle Bell

The Night Life of Trees

Epileptic by David B

Frightful Fairytales by Dame Darcy

(In a Sense) Lost and Found
by Roman Muradov

Good-bye Chunky Rice

Shoplifter by Michael Cho

The Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire

David Boring by Daniel Clowes

It’s A Good Life If You Don’t Weaken by Seth

Berlin by Jason Lutes

Leviathan by Peter Blegvad

Confetti by Ginette Lapalme

Tomi Ungerer Treasury

Nothing Whatsoever All Out in the Open by Akino Kondoh

Bony Legs by Joanna Cole and Dirk Zimmer

The art of Maurice Sendak
by Selma Lanes

Retomber by Xiaoxiao Li

Ikebana by Yumi Sakugawa

SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki

The Weeknight Casserole Collection by Kelly Froh

Kingston is for Lesbians by Cleo

Our Wretched Town Hall
by Eric Kostiuk Williams

Your Mother’s Fox by Niv Sekar

Water by Mandy Ord

Henry Darger

The Contradictions by Sophie Yanow

The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

Bug Boys by Laura Knetzger

Anya’s Ghost
by Vera Brosgol

The Girl From the Other Side- Siúil, a Rún Manga series by Nagabe

Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

Naming Monsters by Hannah Eaton

The Greatest of Marlys by Lynda Barry

Uzumaki by Junji Ito

Pachyderme by Frederik Peeters

The Case of the Missing Men by Kris Bertin Alexander Forbes

Gentleman Jim by Raymond Briggs

Red Colored Elegy
Book by Seiichi Hayashi

Apsara Engine by Bishakh Som

The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud by Kuniko Tsurita

The Swamp by Yoshiharu Tsuge

The Man Without Talent
by Yoshiharu Tsuge

Nineteen by Ancco

Moms by Ma Young-sin

To Know You’re Alive
by Dakota McFadzean

Sleepwalk
by Adrian Tomine

Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine

A Contract with God by Will Eisner

Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks

Rutu Modan, Jamilti

Come Home, Indio by Jim Terry

Maus by Art Spiegelman

Farm 54
by Galit Seliktar,
Gilad Seliktar

Kimiko Does Cancer- A Graphic Memoir by Kimiko Tobimatsu and Keet Geniza

Dancing After TEN by Vivian Chong and Georgia Webber

Dumb by Georgia Webber

Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
by Daniel Clowes (haven’t read this one in years!)

The End of Summer by Tillie Walden

Red Rock Baby Candy by Shira Spector

Amphigorey by Edward Gorey

Cages by Dave Mckean

The Best of Aubrey Beardsley

Remedios Varo: The Mexican Years

Leonora Carrington surrealism alchemy and art

My Name is Arnaktauyok: the life and art of germaine arnaktauyok

The Graphic Works of Odilon Redon

The Arthur Rackham Treasury

Kay Nielsen Art Book edited by David Larkin

Dulac edited by David Larkin

The Artful Dodger by Nick Bantock

Leonor Fini, edited by Constantin Jelenski

Sowa’s Ark by Michael Sowa

Sky in Stereo
by Mardou

After School Special by Dave Kiersh

Everywhere Antennas by Julie Delporte

Witness My Shame by Shary Boyle

The Rabbi’s Cat by Joann Sfar

Nori by Rumi Hara

The Backstage of a Dishwashing Webshow
by Keren Katz

A Gift For a Ghost by Borja González

Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu

Blame This on the Boogie
by Rina Ayuyang

Houses of the Holy
by Caitlin Skaalrud

Sprawling Heart
by Sab Meynert

Soft Float by Valentine Gallardo

The Tea Dragon Society
by Kay O’Neill

Becoming Unbecoming
by Una

Baddawi
by Leila Abdelrazaq

Debbie’s inferno by Anne Emond

The Song of Aglaia
by Anne Simon

Christina and Charles by Austin English

The Hospital Suite by John Porcellino

Petty Theft by Pascal Girard

Evil Dress by Emilie Ostergren

The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

Percy Gloom
by Cathy Malkasian

Ojitos Borrosos

by Inés Estrada

Lapsos (CBA vol 25)

Peculia and the Groon Grove Vampires by Richard Sala

Secret Spirits by Anya Davidson

Interiorae by Gabriella Giandelli

Pinky & Pepper Forever
by Ivy Atoms

Ebb Tide by Elliott G.

Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers

The Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis

The Airy Tales by Olga Volozova

The Ghosts We Know by Sean Karemaker

Girl Town by Carolyn Novak

Dear Julia by Brian Biggs

Sloth by Gilbert Hernández (high school favourite)

Big Baby by Charles Burns

Skin Deep by Charles Burns

This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews

Agnes, Murderess by
Sarah Leavitt

In the Sounds and Seas
by Marnie Galloway

All the Sad Songs by Summer Pierre

Paper Pencil Life by Summer Pierre

Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan

Rotten by MS Harkness

My Favourite Girl That I Never See by Courtney Loberg

W the Whore
by Anke Feuchtenberger and Katrin de Vries

Did You See Me? by Sophia Foster-Domino

Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

Goblin Girl by Moa Romanova

The Milk of Dreams by Leonora Carrington

Ghost Water Kiss
by Jessica Bromley Bartram

Clyde Fans by Seth

Rusty Brown by Chris Ware

Heaven No Hell by Michael Deforge

A Western World by Michael Deforge

First Year Healthy by Michael Deforge

Fütchi Perf by Kevin Czap

The River at Night by Kevin Huizenga

Gleem by Freddy Carrasco

The Bun Thief by Amanda Vähämäki

Out of Hollow Water
by Archie Bongiovanni

A Period of Madness by Luc Leplae

Ice Haven
by Daniel Clowes

John Vasquez Mejias- The Puerto Rican War

Red: A Haida Manga Book by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Victor Martins, Hey, I don’t mean to be condescending or anything, but we’re friends, you don’t have to be afraid of me

Jenn Woodall, Magical Beatdown

The Never Weres by Fiona Smyth

Bezimena by Nina Bunjevac

Fatherland by Nina Bunjevac

Creation by Sylvia Nickerson

Koreangry comics

Dakwäkãda Warriors
by Cole Pauls

Frog and Toad are Queer Zine – Nina Slykhuis Landry

Castle of The Beast by Ariel Cooper

Cosmic Being 2 by Alex Graham

Face Man by Clara Bessijelle

DISPLACEMENT (Wang Xulin) and NATURALLY (Saul Freedman-Lawson) (Old Growth Press 2021 titles)

5 Minutes in Karachi – Misbah Ahmed

From Yesterday – Natalie Mark 麥月明

What They Don’t Know – Riley J. Piñeros

New Growth by Cleopatria Peterson

Before You Go by Natalie Mark

This Will All End in Tears
by Joe Ollmann

Litterpig 1 by Evin Collis

The Lady Who Used to Feed Her Moved Away: And More Unberarably Sad Dog Cartoons by Bruce Simon

Anti-Gone
by Connor Willumsen

Prince of Cats
by Ronald Wimberly

Wavering Line 4 by Wavering Line Collective

Architecture of An Arom by Juliacks

The Complete Wimmen’s Comix

Cat and Bag by Vivan Schwarz

Chicken Rising by D. Boyd

Dark Adaptation by Lorenz Peter

From Lone Mountain by John Porcellino

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

I Never Liked You by Chester Brown

Kiss and Tell: a romantic resume by MariNaomi

Lucky by Gabrielle Bell

My Lesbian Experience with loneliness by Nagata Kabi

Over Easy by Mimi Pond

Perfect Example by John Porcellino

Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart

See Me by E. Jackson.

Stitches by David Small

Sunday in the Park with Boys by Jane Mai

Sunburning by Keiler Roberts

Super Late Bloomer by Julia Kaye

The Arab of the Future A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984 by Riad Sattouf

Taxi Stories from the Back Seat by Aimee de Jongh

The Hookah Girl and Other True Stories by Marguerite Dabaie

The Pervert by Michelle Perez and Remy Boydel

The Song of Roland by Michel Rabagliati

This Womans Work by Julie Delporte and translated by Helge Dascher and Aleshia Jensen

Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust

Transposes by Dylan Edwards

You & a Bike and a Road by Eleanor Davis

100 Days in Uranium City by Ariane Denomme

5,000 Kilometers Per Second by Manuele Fior

Alien Beings by Laura Kenins

Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli

Aya Life in Yop City by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie

Chewing On Tinfoil by Joe Ollmann

Constantly by gg

Drawing Thinking of You Dancing by Jason Kieffer and Mairi Greig

Fish Person by Meagan Berlin

Flem by Rebecca Rosen

For As Long As It Rains by Zviane

Frederick and Eloise- A Love Story by Brian Biggs

Gilded Lilies by Jillian Tamaki

Marie and Worrywart Comics About Anxiety by Jenn Woodall

Meat and Bone by Kat Verhoeven

Miss Dont Touch Me Volume 1 and 2 by Hubert and Kerascoet

Off Season by James Sturm

Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine

Sound of Snow Falling by Maggie Umber

St. Trinians by Ronald Searle

Sufficently Remarkable Memory Maki Naro

Indispensible Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

The Lie and How We Told It by Tommi Parrish

The Pineapples of Wrath by Cathon (pure joy from mysteries like this)

Two Sisters by Laura K Watson

Udon Noodle Soup by Yani Hu

Unspent Love by Shannon Gerard

Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures by Yvan Alagbe

Za Oknem Swieci Slonce by Anja Wicki

Strange Embrace by David Hine

The Box Man by Imiri Sakabashira

Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

So Pretty Very Rotten Comics and Essays on Lolita Fashion and Cute Culture by Jane Mai and An Nguyen

Agony by Mark Beyer

Condo Heartbreak Disco by Eric Kostiuk Williams

House of Strays by Gillian Blekkenhorst

Inkweed by Chris Wright

Jetlag by Etgar Keret

Krazy and Ignatz Volume 1 1941-1942- Ragout of Raspberries by George Herriman

Milk Teeth by Julie Morstad

Three Sisters by Ingrida Picukane

Only Skin by Sean Ford

Pop Gun War by Farel Dalrymple

Prelude to a Million Years and Song Without Words by Lynd Ward

Shrimpy and Paul and Friends by Marc Bell

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

Streak of Chalk by Miguelanxo Prado

The Arrival by Shaun Tan

The Doe by Cassandra Witteman

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adéle Blanc-Sec Vol. 1- Pterror Over Paris The Eiffel Tower Demon by Jacques Tardi

Theth by Josh Bayer

Upgrade Soul by Ezra Claytan Daniels

Surviving the City Volume 1 by Tasha Spillett and Natasha Donovan

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

The Summer of Love by Debbie Drechsler

Kitaro by Shigeru Mizuki

A Wrinkle in Time- The Graphic Novel by Madeleine LEngle and Hope Larson

Archival Quality by Ivy Noelle Weir and Steenz

Mimi and the Wolves by Alabaster

Will I See by David Alexander Robertson

Witchy by Ariel Slamet Ries

A Year Without Mom by Dasha Tolstikova

Grandfather and the Moon by Stephanie Lapointe and Roge

Wee Pals Right On! by Morrie Turner (favourite as a kid)

August Moon by Diana Thung

Nightlights by Lorena Alvarez

Spiral-Bound by Aaron Renier

The Little Gardener by Emily Hughes

The Only Child by Guojing

Blue Angel by Sokal

Abelard by Renaud Dillies and Régis Hautière

Bubbles & Gondola by Renaud Dillies

Night Bus by Zuo Ma