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Most of these books are still available from any comic store (using the Diamond Comics Star System) or from any bookstore using ISBN. Please email me with link suggestions or corrections.
See also: That One Guy and Spat from the Womb of Time
| Scott McCloud | Understanding Comics | 0-06097625-X |
| Sarah Dyer, et al | Action Girl | -na- |
| COMIC STRIP COLLECTIONS | ||
| Matt Groening | Big Book of Hell | 0-679-72759-0 |
| Matt Groening | Binky's Guide to Love | 0-06-095078-1 |
| Berke Breathed | Bloom County: Classics of Western Literature 1986-1989 | 0-316-10754-9 |
| Gary Larson | Prehistory of the Far Side | 0-8362-1851-5 |
| Bill Watterson | Authoritative Calvin & Hobbes | 0-8362-1822-1 |
| Scott Adams | Dilbert: It's Obvious You Won't Survive by Your Wits Alone | 0-8362-0415-8 |
| Ted Rall | All the Rules Have Changed | 0-89620-119-8 |
| Ted Rall | The Worst Thing I've Ever Done | 1-56163-157-4 |
| Edward Gorey | Amphigorey | 0-399-50433-8 |
| Edward Gorey | Amphigorey Also | 0-15-605672-0 |
| Larry Gonick | Cartoon History of the Universe | 0-385-26520-4 |
| Larry Gonick | Cartoon Guide to Statistics | 0-06-273102-5 |
| HUMOR AND COMEDIES | ||
| Bronwyn Carlton, et al | Big Book of Death | 1-56389-166-2 |
| Jan Brunvald, et al | Big Book of Urban Legends | 1-56389-165-4 |
| Doug Moench, et al | Big Book of Conspiracies | 1-56389-186-7 |
| Evan Dorkin | Fun with Milk and Cheese | -na- |
| Marc Hempel | Gregory | -na- |
| Kyle Baker | Why I Hate Saturn | -na- |
| Kyle Baker | The Cowboy Wally Show | 1-56924-834-6 |
| AS SEEN ON TV, ETC | ||
| Steve & Cindy Vance | Simpsons Comics Extravaganza | 0-9642999-0-9 |
| James O'Barr | The Crow | 0-87816-221-6 |
| Milligan & Johnson | Aliens: Sacrifice | -na- |
| Veitch & Kennedy | Star Wars: Dark Empire | -na- |
| Ben Edlund | Tick Omnibus | -na- |
| Hewlett & Martin | Tank Girl | 1-878574-51-5 |
| Arcudi & Mahnke | The Mask | 1-878574-50-7 |
| J.R.R. Tolkien | The Hobbit | 0-345-36858-4 |
| Herman Mellville | Moby Dick | 0-425-12023-6 |
| Paul Auster | City of Glass | 0-380-77108-X |
| LIFE DRAMA AND BIOGRAPHY | ||
| Jim Ottaviani | Two-Fisted Science | 0-9660106-0-4 |
| Bryan Talbot | Tale of One Bad Rat | 1-56971-077-5 |
| Wojnarowicz and Romberger | Seven Miles a Second | 1-56389-247-2 |
| Howard Cruse | Stuck Rubber Baby | 1-56389-255-3 |
| Andrew Vachss | Hard Looks | 1-56971-209-3 |
| Ho Che Anderson | King | 1-56097-112-6 |
| Joe Kubert | Fax from Sarajevo | |
| Joe Sacco | Palestine | 1-15097-150-9 |
| Art Spiegelman | Maus | 0-394-74723-2 |
| Art Spiegelman | Maus II | 0-679-72977-1 |
| Alan Moore | V for Vendetta | 0-930289-52-8 |
| Alan Moore | Watchmen | 0-930289-23-4 |
| Alan Moore | Saga of the Swamp Thing | 0-930289-22-6 |
| Alan Moore | Swamp Thing: Love & Death | 0-930289-54-4 |
| Alan Moore | A Small Killing | 1-878574-45-0 |
| Alan Moore | From Hell | need the TPB |
| Alan Moore | Miracleman: A Dream of Flying | 0-913035-61-0 |
| Alan Moore | Miracleman: Red King Syndrome | need the TPB |
| Alan Moore | Miracleman: Olympus | 1-56060-080-2 |
| Neil Gaiman, et al | Miracleman: Apocrypha | ?-?-? |
| Neil Gaiman | Miracleman: Golden Age | ?-?-? |
| Neil Gaiman | Violent Cases | -na- |
| Neil Gaiman | Mr. Punch | 1-56389-181-6 |
| Neil Gaiman | Signal to Noise | 0-56971-144-5 |
| Neil Gaiman | Black Orchid | 0-930289-55-2 |
| Neil Gaiman | Books of Magic | 1-56389-082-8 |
| Neil Gaiman | Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes | 1-56389-011-9 |
| Neil Gaiman | Sandman: Doll's House | 0-930289-59-5 |
| Neil Gaiman | Sandman: Dream Country | 1-56389-016-? |
| Neil Gaiman | Sandman: A Game of You | 1-56389-089-5 |
| Neil Gaiman | Sandman: Season of Mists | 1-56389-041-0 |
| Neil Gaiman | Sandman: Fables & Reflections | 1-56389-105-0 |
| Neil Gaiman | Sandman: Brief Lives | 1-56389-138-7 |
| Neil Gaiman | Sandman: Worlds' End | 1-56389-171-9 |
| Neil Gaiman | Sandman: The Kindly Ones | 1-56389-205-7 |
| Neil Gaiman | Sandman: The Wake | 1-56389-279-0 |
| Neil Gaiman | Death: the High Cost of Living | 1-56389-133-6 |
| Neil Gaiman | Death: the Time of Your Life | 1-56389-333-9 |
| Neil Gaiman | Emperor Heliogabolus | -na- |
| Dave Sim | Cerebus | 0-919359-08-6 |
| Dave Sim | High Society | 0-919359-07-8 |
| Dave Sim | Church & State I | 0-919359-08-6 |
| Dave Sim | Church & State II | 0-919359-09-4 |
| Dave Sim | Jaka's Story | 0-919359-12-4 |
| Dave Sim | Melmoth | 0-919359-10-8 |
| Dave Sim | Flight | 0-919359-13-2 |
| Dave Sim | Women | 0-919359-14-0 |
| Dave Sim | Reads | 0-919359-15-9 |
| Dave Sim | Minds | 0-919359-16-7 |
| Frank Miller | Ronin | 0-930289-21-8 |
| Frank Miller | Dark Knight Returns | 0-930289-13-7 |
| Frank Miller | Batman: Year One | ?-?-? |
| Frank Miller | Daredevil: Born Again (TPB) | 0-87135-297-4 |
| Frank Miller | Sin City | 1-878574-59-0 |
| Frank Miller | Give Me Liberty | 1-56971-067-8 |
| Frank Miller | Hard Boiled | 1-878574-58-2 |
| Matt Wagner | Mage: the Hero Discovered | 0-89865-465-3 |
| Matt Wagner | Grendel: Devil by the Deed | 0-938965-01-8 |
| Matt Wagner | Grendel: Devil's Legacy | 0-938965-07-7 |
| Matt Wagner | Grendel: War Child | 1-878574-89-2 |
| MANGA (JAPANESE) | ||
| Yukinobu Hoshino | 2001 Nights | 1-56931-103-X |
| Yukinobu Hoshino | 2001 Nights: Journey Beyond Tomorrow | 1-56931-102-1 |
| Yukinobu Hoshino | 2001 Nights: Children of Earth | 1-56931-125-0 |
| Keiji Nakazawa | Barefoot Gen | |
| Keiji Nakazawa | Barefoot Gen: the Day After | |
| Osamu Tezuka | Adolf: Tale of the 20th Century | 1-56931-058-0 |
| Osamu Tezuka | Adolf: Exile in Japan | 1-56931-107-2 |
| Osamu Tezuka | Adolf: The Half-Aryan | 1-56931-132-3 |
| Osamu Tezuka | Adolf: Days of Infamy | 1-56931-124-2 |
| Osamu Tezuka | Adolf: 1945 and All That Remains | 1-56931-162-5 |
| Keiji Nakazawa | Barefoot Gen | 0-14-025125-1 |
| Hayao Miyazaki | Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind | 1-56931-096-3 |
| Hayao Miyazaki | Nausicaa (collection 2) | 1-56931-087-4 |
| Hayao Miyazaki | Nausicaa (collection 3) | 1-56931-111-0 |
| Hayao Miyazaki | Nausicaa (collection 4) | 1-56931-211-7 |
| Yukito Kishiro | Battle Angel Alita | 1-56931-003-3 |
| Yukito Kishiro | Tears of an Angel | 1-56931-049-1 |
| Rumiko Takahashi | Mermaid Forest | 1-56931-047-5 |
| Rumiko Takahashi | Ranma 1/2 (volume 1) | 0-929279-93-X |
| Rumiko Takahashi | Ranma 1/2 (volume 2) | 1-56931-016-5 |
| Rumiko Takahashi | Ranma 1/2 (volume 3) | 1-56931-020-3 |
| Koike & Ikegama | Crying Freeman | 1-56931-077-7 |
| Koike & Ikegama | Lone Wolf & Cub | -na- |
| Buronson | Fist of the North Star | 1-56931-031-9 |
| Masamune Shirow | Appleseed: Promethean Challenge | 1-56971-070-8 |
| Masamune Shirow | Appleseed: Prometheus Unbound | 1-56971-071-6 |
| FANTASY AND SUPERHEROES | ||
| W & R Pini | ElfQuest: Fire & Flight | 0-936861-16-9 |
| Colleen Doran | A Distant Soil: Immigrant Song | 0-89865-514-5 |
| James Owen | Starchild: Awakenings | -na- |
| Paul Chadwick | Complete Concrete | 1-56971-037-6 |
| Paul Chadwick | Concrete: Fragile Creatures | 1-56971-022-8 |
| Paul Chadwick | Concrete: Think Like A Mountain | 1-56971-176-3 |
| Baron & Rude | Nexus (volume 1) | 1-878574-54-X |
| Baron & Rude | Nexus (volume 2) | 1-878574-80-9 |
| Priest & Bright | Quantum & Woody | -na- |
| Mike Allredd | Madman: Oddity Odyssey | 0-87816-247-X |
| Scott McCloud | Zot! (book 1) | 0-87816-427-8 |
| Scott McCloud | New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln | 1-887279-87-3 |
| Busiek & Ross | Marvels | 0-7851-0049-0 |
| Kurt Busiek | Astro City | 0-9653290-0-3 |
| Kurt Busiek | Astro City: Confessions | |
| Bennet & Guinan | Heartbreakers | 1-887279-49-0 |
| Mike Saenz | Shatter | 0-449-90288-9 |
| Hernandez & Motter | Return of Mr X | 0-446-38698-7 |
| Rick Veitch | The One | 0-9624864-0-X |
| FAMOUS NAMES | ||
| Herge | Tintin: The Seven Crystal Balls | 0-316-35840-1 |
| Herge | Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun | 0-316-35843-6 |
| Will Eisner | A Contract with God | 0-87816-018-3 |
| Will Eisner | Invisible People | 0-87816-207-0 |
| Will Eisner, et al. | Spirit | -na- |
| Bill Gaines | Tales from the Crypt | -na- |
| Clive Barker | The Life of Death | 1-56060-145-0 |
| C.S. Lewis | The Screwtape Letters | 0-8407-6261-5 |
| Richard Wagner | Ring of the Nibelung | 1-56389-006-2 |
| Dave Morice | More Poetry Comics | 1-55652-220-7 |
| VERTIGO AND RELATED AUTHORS | ||
| Grant Morrison | Mystery Play | 1-56389-189-1 |
| Grant Morrison | Doom Patrol | 1-56389-034-8 |
| Grant Morrison | Animal Man | 1-56389-005-4 |
| Morrison & McKean | Arkham Asylum | 0-930289-56-0 |
| Dave McKean | Cages | |
| Warren Ellis | Transmetropolitan | 1-56389-445-9 |
| Jamie Delano | Hellblazer: Original Sins | 1-56389-052-6 |
| Garth Ennis | Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits | 1-56389-150-6 |
| Garth Ennis | Preacher: Gone to Texas | 1-56389-261-8 |
| Garth Ennis | Troubled Souls | 0-85386-174-X |
| DeMatteis & Muth | The Compleat Moonshadow | 1-56389-343-6 |
| DeMatteis & Williams | Blood, a Tale | need the TPB |
| Peter Milligan | Rogan Gosh | 1-56389-143-3 |
| George Pratt | Enemy Ace: War Idyll | 0-930289-78-1 |
| MISCELLANEOUS (comedy, horror, drama) | ||
| Larry Marder | Beanworld (book 1) | 1-887245-00-6 |
| Larry Marder | Beanworld (book 2) | 1-887245-01-4 |
| Jeff Smith | Bone: Out of Boneville | 0-9636609-0-X |
| Jeff Smith | Bone: The Great Cow Race | 0-9636609-2-6 |
| Jeff Smith | Bone: Eyes of the Storm | 0-9636609-3-4 |
| Jeff Smith | Bone: The Dragonslayer | 0-888963-01-X |
| Jeff Smith | Bone: Rockjaw | |
| J Robinson & P Smith | Leave it to Chance | 1-887279-42-3 |
| Rick Geary | Cyberantics | 1-878574-29-9 |
| Steve Purcell | Sam & Max: Surfin the Highway | 1-56924-814-1 |
| David Boswell | Reid Fleming: World's Toughest Milkman | 1-56060-107-8 |
| Vance & Burr | Kings in Disguise | 0-87816-107-4 |
| David Lapham | Stray Bullets: Innocence of Nihilism | 0-9653280-2-3 |
| Terry Moore | Strangers in Paradise | -na- |
| Collins & Beatty | The Files of Ms Tree | 0-919359-05-1 |
| Charles Vess | Book of Ballads | 0-9657769-0-5 |
| Donna Barr | Desert Peach: Beginnings | 1-883847-13-3 |
| Martin Wagner | Collegiate Hepcats | 0-9636660-0-2 |
| Martin Wagner | Hepcats: Snowblind | 0-9636660-2-9 |
| Peter Bagge | The Bradleys | 0-930193-89-X |
| Chester Brown | Ed the Happy Clown | 0-921451-08-3 |
| Los Bros Hernandez | Love and Rockets: Chelo's Burden | 0-930193-25-3 |
| Shannon Wheeler | Too Much Coffee Man | 1-56971-289-1 |
| Edward Gorey | Amphigorey Too | HBJ |
| Larry Marder | Beanworld book 3 | Beanworld |
| Moore & Campbell | From Hell | Kitchen Sink |
| Paul Pope | THB (book A) | Horse Press |
| WISH LIST | ||
| Alan Moore | Ballad of Halo Jones | Titan |
| Baron & Rude | Nexus (original GN) | Pacific / First |
| Evan Dorkin | Hectic Planet | Slave Labor |
| Scott McCloud | Destroy! | Eclipse |
| Frank Miller | Elektra: Assassin (TPB) | Marvel Epic |
| Walt Simonson | Ballad of Beta Ray Bill (TPB) | Marvel |
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