Comic Books/Graphic Novels in Palomar College Library

 

 Primary Sources

Jessica Abel.  Mirror, Window

---.  La Perdida

Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie.  Aya

Ho Che Anderson.  King, Vol. 1

---.  King, Vol. 2

---.  King, Vol. 3

Katherine Arnoldi.  The Amazing “True” Story of a Teenage Mom

David B.  Epileptic

Peter Bagge.  Hey, Buddy

---.  Buddy the Dreamer

Carl Barks.  The Carl Barks Library, Volumes I – III

Lynda Barry.  The Freddie Stories

---.  The! Greatest! of! Marlys!

---.  One Hundred Demons

---.  What It Is

--- (ed).  The Best American Comics 2008

Baru.  Road to America

Alison Bechdel.  The Indelible Alison Bechdel

---.  Fun Home:  A Family Tragicomic

Brian Michael Bendis.  Torso

John Benson (ed).  Romance without Tears

NIck Bertozzi.  The Salon

Enki Bilal.  The Black Order Brigade

Raymond Briggs.  Ethel and Ernest

Chester Brown.  I Never Liked You

---.  The Little Man

---.  The Playboy

---.  Louis Riel

Jeffrey Brown.  Little Things:  A Memoir in Slices

Ivan Brunetti (ed).  An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories

---.  An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories, Volume 2

---.  Misery Loves Comedy

Charles Burns.  El Borbah

---.  Big Baby

---.  Skin Deep

---.  Black Hole

Kurt Busiek.  Astro City:  Life in the Big City

---.  Astro City:  Confession

---.  Astro City:  Tarnished Angel

Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross.  Marvels

Eddie Campbell.  After the Snooter

---.  The Fate of the Artist

Eddie Campbell and Michelle Gaby.  The Black Diamond Detective Agency

Juan Diaz Canales.  Blacksad

---.  Blacksad 2:  Arctic Nation

Paul Chadwick.  Concrete:  The Complete Short Stories, 1986-1989

---.  Concrete:  Think Like a Mountain

Dan Clowes.  Ghost World

---.  Caricature

---.  David Boring

---.  Twentieth Century Eightball

---.  Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron

---.  Ice Haven

Jack Cole.  The Plastic Man Archives Vol. 1

Darwyn Cooke.  DC:  The New Frontier Vol. 1

---.  DC:  The New Frontier Vol. 2

---.  The Spirit, Volume 1

---.  The Spirit, Volume 2

---.  Batman:  Ego and Other Tales

Robert Crumb.  My Troubles with Women

---.  Crumb Family Comics

---.  R. Crumb Draws the Blues

---.  Complete Dirty Laundry

---.  Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 13:  The Season of the Snoid

Howard Cruse.  Stuck Rubber Baby

Kim Deitch.  The Boulevard of Broken Dreams

---.  Alias the Cat

Jamie Delano.  Hellblazer:  Original Sins

Guy Delisle.  Pyongyang

---.  Shenzhen:  A Travelogue from China

---.  The Burma Chronicles

Catherine Doherty.  Can of Worms

Julie Doucet.  My New York Diary

Debbie Drechsler.  Daddy’s Girl

---.  Summer of Love

Eric Drooker.  Flood

---.  Blood Song

EC Annuals.  Crime Suspenstories Vol. 6

---.  Frontline Combat Vol. 1 & 2

---.  Haunt of Fear Vol. 4

---.  Impact Vol. 1

---.  Shock Suspenstories Vol. 3

---.  Tales from the Crypt Vol. 2 & 6

---.  Two-Fisted Tales Vol. 2 & 3

---.  Vault of Horror Vol. 6

---.  Weird Fantasy Vol. 1

---.  Weird Science Vol. 1, 3, 5

EC Archives.  Shock Suspenstories, Vol. 1

---.  Shock Suspenstories, Vol. 2

---.  Tales from the Crypt, Vol. 1

---.  Tales from the Crypt, Vol. 2

---.  Tales from the Crypt, Vol. 3

---.  Two-Fisted Tales, Vol. 1

---.  Two-Fisted Tales, Vol. 2

---.  Weird Science, Vol. 1

---.  Weird Science, Vol. 2

---.  Weird Science, Vol. 3

Will Eisner.  The Best of the Spirit

---.  Contract with God

---.  Last Day in Vietnam

---.  The Spirit Archives, Vol. 1

---.  The Spirit Archives, Vol. 5

---.  The Spirit Archives, Vol. 7

---.  Fagin the Jew

Warren Ellis.  Transmetropolitan:  Back on the Street

---.  Transmetropolitan:  Year of the Bastard

---.  Transmetropolitan:  Lust for Life

---.  Planetary:  All Over the World and Other Stories

---.  Planetary:  The Fourth Man

---.  Planetary:  Leaving the 20th Century

---.  Planetary:  Crossing Worlds

Garth Ennis.  Preacher:  Gone to Texas

Joshua Fialkov, Noel Tuazon, Scott Keating.  Elk's Run

Mary Fleener.  Life of the Party

Bob Fingerman.  Beg the Question

Ellen Forney.  Monkey Food

Neil Gaiman.  Sandman:  Preludes and Nocturnes

---.  Sandman:  The Doll's House

---.  Sandman:  Dream Country

---.  Sandman:  Season of Mists

---.  Sandman:  A Game of You

---.  Sandman:  Fables and Reflections

---.  Sandman:  Brief Lives

---.  Sandman:  World’s End

---.  Sandman:  The Kindly Ones

---.  Sandman:  The Wake

---.  Sandman:  Endless Nights

---.  The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish

---.  Mr. Punch

Phoebe Gloeckner.  A Child's Life and Other Stories

---.  Diary of a Teenage Girl

Rene Goscinny.  Asterix the Gaul

---.  Asterix and Cleopatra

Justin Green.  The Binky Brown Sampler

Roberta Gregory.  At Work and Play with Bitchy Bitch

---.  A Bitch is Born

---.  Bitchy's College Daze

Nicholas Gurewitch.  The Perry Bible Fellowship

Sammy Harkham (ed).  Kramer’s Ergot 5

David Heatley.  My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down

Herge.  Tintin:  Seven Crystal Balls

---.  Tintin:  Prisoners of the Sun

---.  Tintin in Tibet

Los Bros. Hernandez.  The Death of Speedy

---.  Blood of Palomar

---.  Flies on the Ceiling

---.  Love and Rockets X

---.  Wig Wam Bam

---.  Poison River

---.  Chester Square

---.  Whoa, Nellie!

---.  Locas in Love

---.  Luba in America

---.  Luba:  The Book of Ofelia

---.  Palomar:  The Heartbreak Soup Stories

---.  Locas:  A Love & Rockets Book

---.  Ghost of Hoppers

---.  Chance in Hell

George Herriman.  Krazy & Ignatz, 1925 – 1926

---.  Krazy & Ignatz, 1927 – 1928

---.  Krazy & Ignatz, 1929 – 1930

---.  Krazy & Ignatz, 1931 – 1932

---.  Krazy & Ignatz, 1935 - 1936

Todd Hignite (ed).  Comic Art 9

Paul Hornschemeier.  Mother, Come Home

---.  Let Us Be Perfectly Clear

Dylan Horrocks.  Hicksville

Kevin Huizenga.  Curses

Katherine Hyatt.  Marilyn:  The Story of a Woman

Jack Jackson.  God’s Bosom

---.  Lost Cause

---.  Indian Lover:  Sam Houston and the Cherokees

---.  The Alamo:  An Epic Told from Both Sides

Sidney Jacobson, et al.  The 9/11 Report:  A Graphic Adaptation

Jason.  Sshhh!

---.  Hey, wait…

Mark Kalesniko.  Mail Order Bride

Gil Kane.  Marvel Visionaries:  Gil Kane

---.  Blackmark

Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert.  The Sgt. Rock Archives Vol. 1

Paul Karasik (ed).  Fletcher Hanks: I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets

Ben Katchor.  The Jew of New York

Miriam Katin.  We Are on Our Own

Walt Kelly.  Pogo, Vol. 1

---.  Pogo, Vol. 5

---.  Pogo, Vol. 6

---.  Pogo, Vol. 7

---.  Pogo, Vol. 9

---.  Pogo, Vol. 10

---.  Pogo, Vol. 11

Derek Kirk Kim.  Same Difference and Other Stories

Frank King.  Walt & Skeezix:  1921 & 1922

Jack Kirby.  Jack Kirby's New Gods

---.  Jack Kirby's Forever People

Mia Kirschner, et al.  I Live Here

James Kochalka.  American Elf

Joe Kubert.  Fax from Sarajevo

---.  Yossel, April 19, 1943

Peter Kuper.  Stripped

---.  Stop Forgetting to Remember

Harvey Kurtzman, Humbug

Terry LaBan.  Eno and Plum

Tim Lane.  Abandoned Cars

Lat.  Kampung Boy

---.  Town Boy

Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.  Marvel Masterworks:  Spider-Man 1 – 10

Stan Lee and Gil Kane.  The Amazing Spider-Man:  The Death of Gwen Stacy

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.  Marvel Masterworks:  The Fantastic Four 51 – 60

---.  Fantastic Firsts

---.  Marvel Romance

Jeff Lemire.  Essex County 1: Tales from the Farm

---.  Essex County 2: Ghost Stories

---.  Esssex County 3:  The Country Nurse

Jason Little.  Shutterbug Follies

Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale.  Batman:  The Long Halloween

---.  Batman:  Dark Victory

---.  Daredevil:  Yellow

---.  A Superman for All Seasons

---.  Spiderman:  Blue

Jason Lutes.  Berlin, Book 1:  City of Stones

---.  Berlin, Book 2:  City of Smoke

Stan Mack.  Janet and Me:  An Illustrated Story of Love & Loss

Jeff Mason (ed).  9-11 Emergency Relief

Joe Matt.  The Poor Bastard

---.  Fair Weather

Winsor McCay.  The Best of Little Nemo in Slumberland

Aaron McGruder.  Birth of a Nation:  A Comic Novel

Dave McKean.  Cages

Mike Mignola.  Hellboy:  Wake the Devil

---.  Hellboy:  Right Hand of Doom

---.  Hellboy:  Seed of Destruction

---.  Hellboy:  The Chained Coffin and Other Stories

---.  Hellboy:  Conqueror Worm

---.  Hellboy:  Strange Places

Frank Miller.   Batman:  Year One

---.  The Dark Knight Returns

---.  Ronin

---.  Elektra:  Assassin

---.  Daredevil:  Born Again

---.  Daredevil Visionaries:  Frank Miller, Volume 2

---.  Daredevil Visionaries:  Frank Miller, Volume 3

Peter Milligan.  Human Target:  Final Cut

---.  X-Force:  New Beginnings

Rutu Modan.  Exit Wounds

Alan Moore.  From Hell

---.  Watchmen

---.  Absolute Watchmen

---.  Saga of the Swamp Thing

---.  Swamp Thing:  Love and Death

---.  Swamp Thing:  The Curse

---.  Swamp Thing:  A Murder of Crows

---.  Swamp Thing:  Earth to Earth

---.  Swamp Thing:  Reunion

---.  Promethea, Book 2

---.  The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1

---.  The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen:  The Black Dossier

Robert Morales and Kyle Baker.  Truth:  Red, White, and Black

Grant Morrison.  Animal Man, Book 1

---.  Animal Man, Book 2

---.  Animal Man, Book 3

---.  JLA:  Earth 2

---.  All-Star Superman, Vol. 1

Steve Mumford.  Baghdad Journal

Chris Oliveros.  Drawn and Quarterly 3

---.  Drawn and Quarterly 4

---.  Drawn and Quarterly 5

Dennis O’Neill.  Green Lantern/Green Arrow, Volume 1

---.  Green Lantern/Green Arrow, Volume 2

Jim Ottaviani.  Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards

---.  Two-Fisted Science

---.  Dignifying Science:  Stories about Women Scientists

---.  Fallout

---.  Suspended in Language

Gary Panter.  Jimbo's Inferno

Frederik Peeters.  Blue Pills

Harvey Pekar.  The New American Splendor Anthology

---.  Our Cancer Year

---.  American Splendor:  The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar

---.  The Quitter

---.  American Splendor:  Our Movie Year

---.  American Splendor:  Unsung Hero

---.  The Best of American Splendor

---.  Ego & Hubris:  The Michael Malice Story

---.  Students for a Democratic Society:  A Graphic History

---.  (ed).  The Best American Comics 2006

Ian Pollock.  King Lear

Ted Rall.  My War with Brian

---.  To Afghanistan and Back

Alex Robinson.  Box Office Poison

---.  Tricked

---.  Too Cool to Be Forgotten

Joe Sacco.  Palestine I

---.  Palestine II

---.  Safe Area Gorazde

---.  Notes from a Defeatist

---.  The Fixer

---.  War’s End:  Profiles from Bosnia

Frank Santoro.  Storeyville

Marjane Satrapi.  Persepolis:  The Story of a Childhood

---.  Persepolis 2:  The Story of a Return

---.  Embroideries

Charles M. Schultz.  Peanuts:  A Golden Celebration

---.  Peanuts:  The Art of Charles M. Schultz

---.  Complete Peanuts, 1950-1952

---.  Complete Peanuts, 1953-1954

Diana Schultz (ed).  Autobiographix

Steven Seagle.  It’s a Bird

E.C. Segar.  Popeye:  I Yam What I Yam

Seth.  It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken

---.  Clyde Fans Book One

Eric Shanower.  Age of Bronze:  A Thousand Ships

Dash Shaw.  The Bottomless Belly Button

Jeff Smith.  Bone:  Vol. 1

---.  Bone:  One Volume Edition

Kevin Smith and Phil Hester.  Green Arrow:  Quiver

Joann Sfar.  The Rabbi’s Cat

Art Spiegelman.  Maus I

---.  Maus II

--- (ed).  Little Lit I

--- (ed).  Little Lit II

---.  In the Shadow of No Towers

---.  Breakdowns:  Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!

John Stanley.  Little Lulu:  Lulu Takes a Trip

---.  Little Lulu:  Lulu Goes Shopping

Jean Phillippe Stassen.  Deogratias:  A Tale of Rwanda

James Sturm.  The Golem's Mighty Swing

---.  James Sturm's America:  God, Gold, and Golems

Carol Swain.  Foodboy

Yoshihiro Tatsumi.  The Push Man and Other Stories

---.  Abandon the Old in Tokyo

Bryan Talbot.  Alice in Sunderland

Craig Thompson.  Goodbye Chunky Rice

---.  Blankets

Adrian Tomine.  Sleepwalk and Other Stories

---.  Summer Blonde

---.  Scrapbook:  Uncollected Work

---.  Shortcomings

Alissa Torres and Sungyoon Choi.  American Widow

Carol Tyler.  Late Bloomer

James Vance.  Kings in Disguise

Brian K. Vaughan.  Y the Last Man:  Unmanned

---.  Y the Last Man:  Cycles

---.  Y the Last Man:  One Small Step

---.  Y the Last Man:  Safeword

---.  Y the Last Man:  Ring of Truth

---.  Y the Last Man:  Girl on Girl

---.  Y the Last Man:  Paper Dolls

---.  Y the Last Man:  Motherland

---.  Ex Machina:  The First Hundred Days

---.  Ex Machina:  Tag

---.  Ex Machina:  Fact vs. Fiction

---.  Ex Machina:  Smoke Smoke

---.  Ex Machina: Power Down

---.  Pride of Baghdad

Rick Veitch.  Can't Get No

Mark Waid and Alex Ross.  Kingdom Come

Matt Wagner.  Trinity:  Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman

Chris Ware.  Jimmy Corrigan:  The Smartest Kid on Earth

---.  Quimby the Mouse

---.  Acme Novelty Library 17

---.  Acme Novelty Library 18

---.  Acme Novelty Library 19

--- (ed).  McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern Issue No. 13

--- (ed).  The Best American Comics 2007

Bill Willingham.  Fables:  Legends in Exile

---.  Fables:  Storybook Love

---.  Fables:  Animal Farm

---.  Fables:  1001 Nights of Snowfall

---.  Fables:  March of the Wooden Soldiers

---.  Fables:  The Mean Season

---.  Fables:  Homelands

---.  Fables:  Arabian Nights and Days

---.  Fables: Wolves

---.  Fables: Sons of Empire

S. Clay Wilson.  The Collected Checkered Demon

Judd Winick.  Pedro and Me

Marv Wolfman and George Perez.  Crisis on Infinite Earths

Jim Woodring.  Frank, Vol. 2

---.  Jim

Yoshihiro, Tatsumi.  The Push Man and Other Stories

---.  Abandon the Old in Tokyo

---.  Good-bye

 

Secondary Sources

 

Molly Bang.  Picture This:  How Pictures Work

Michael Barrier.  The Animated Man:  A Life of Walt Disney

Hy Bender.  The Sandman Companion

Jeffrey Brown.  Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans

N.C. Christopher Couch.  The Will Eisner Companion

Will Eisner.  Comics and Sequential Art

---.  Graphic Storytelling

Mark James Estren.  A History of Underground Comics

Mark Evanier.  Kirby:  King of Comics

Nancy Frey and Doug Fisher (eds).  Teaching Visual Literacy: Using Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Anime, Cartoons, and More to Develop Comprehension and Thinking Skills

Deborah Geis (ed).  Considering Maus:  Approaches to Art Spiegelman’s “Survivor’s Tale"

Grant Geissman.  Foul Play!  The Art and Artists of the Notorious 1950s EC Comics

Milo George (ed).  Jack Kirby:  The Comics Journal Library

Paul Gravett.  Graphic Novels:  Everything You Need to Know

Gary Groth (ed).  Harvey Kurtzman:  The Comics Journal Library

David Hajdu.  The Ten-Cent Plague:  The Great Comic Book Scare

Charles Hatfield.  Alternative Comics:  An Emerging Literature

R. C. Harvey.  Children of the Yellow Kid

---.  Art of the Comic Book

Sean Howe (ed).  Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers!

Gerard Jones.  Men of Tomorrow:  Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book

Andrea Juno.  Dangerous Drawings

Geoff Klock.  How to Read Superhero Comics and Why

Scott McCloud.  Understanding Comics

---.  Reinventing Comics

Amy Kiste Nyberg.  Seal of Approval:  The History of the Comics Code

Matthew Pustz.  Comic Book Culture:  Fanboys and True Believers

Ted Rall.  Attitude:  The New Subversive Political Cartoonists

---.  Attitude 2:  The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists

Ronin Ro.  Tales to Astonish:  Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution

Trina Robbins.  From Girls to Grrrlz

Patrick Rosenkranz.  Rebel Visions:  The Underground Comix Revolution

Roger Sabin.  Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels

Greg Sadowski.  B. Krigstein, Vol. 1

---.  B. Krigstein: Comics

Frederik Schodt.  Manga!  Manga!  The World of Japanese Comics

Spiegelman, Art.  Jack Cole and Plastic Man:  Forms Stretched to Their Limits!

Rocco Versaci.  This Book Contains Graphic Language:  Comics as Literature

Fred Von Bernewitz.  Tales of Terror!  An EC Companion

Joseph Witek.  Comic Books as History

Bradford Wright.  Comic Book Nation

Eddie Zeno.  Curt Swan:  A Life in Comics

 

 

 

 

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