The 100 Best Graphic Novels of All Time, Ranked 

100 runs in less than 3 minutes? Man I wish this video was a lot longer! As someone who has not read nearly any of these, I would have liked if you could have given a short description of each one or why you liked it so much and added it to your top 100. You could have broken this into several videos worth counting down your top 100!

I’d need to add in Kabuki and I know you had Frank Miller’s DD run in there, but specifically I’d include his DD Man Without Fear limited series. Great video as always, would like to see hear some more detail on these as not come across quite a few before!

Thanks for this video. Very straightforward. Keep up the good work. 😁

I love when you do this kind of video! My favorite content you make.

I can’t believe I actually agree with your list. I loveeee Moore, Johns and Hickman even tho I’ve been burnt out on superhero’s for the last 10 years. Well done!

So glad you included Ennis and McCrea's Hitman, Morrison's JLA, the Ellis/Cassaday Planetary and the Ennis Punisher. So many great titles and I've read maybe 15 of them; much to my shame, I've only read a couple of Will Eisner works (so far). I'd have to include David Mack's Kabuki in the list near the top as a superior example of sustained artistic and writing brilliance.

Great vid as always buddy!

I would have absolutely added Frank Miller’s 😊“300”. Maybe a near bottom of the list nod to “Ronin” and/or “Tokyo Ghost” for dystopian future reads.

Nice list. I would add "Murder Falcon" here, not only in the top 100 but top 10. Another great DC book is "Superman secret identity".

Looks great, sir!

hmm - maybe i would fit 'the crow' in there somewhere... i also really loved 300 and Sin City. Just recently read john kellys batman vs. dracular books... as not that big a batman fan - those books are fin amazing. For Kraven's last hunt - this book blew my mind when i bought it back then (guess i was about 10)... bone and chew also top favourites of mine... love you also included something so recent like department of truth... currently one of the best books out there imho.

Have a collection from when I was a kid around 1990. Incredible Hulk 181, ASM 129, NM98, Death of Superman… Lots like that. Most of the run of Batman and Detective Comics (starting w/ death in the family through a bit after Year 3). Nothing but NM98 is sure to be 9.6-9.8. Worth grading any or should I just keep them in their boxes and sell as a collection in several years?

Oooff keeps the great content coming

I was surprised by seeing Maus in the list and at such a high placing. It really is a special novel, i read it at a young age, so it have a bit of nostalgia, but i really want to read it again with a more mature insight.

Man just goes to show you've read so much more than I even though I am "the comic guy" within my own family. Anyway excellent list!

Picked up volume 1 of the Geoff Johns GL run today when visiting a new LCS for the first time. Can’t wait to dive in.

Solid list!

Solid list.

I loved "The Invisibles." (Grant Morrison) I'm sure many do not. But I did. By the way, your service is excellent. Quick shipping, great packaging, and no sneaky added charges.

Haven't read many of the novels listed. Guess I've got a lot of reading ahead of me. In the meanwhile, in no particular order, listed below are the novels not mentioned. *American Flagg* by Howard Chaykin *Batman Strange Apparitions* by Steve Engelhart & Marshall Rogers *Green Lantern/Green Arrow* by Dennis O'Neil & Neal Adams *Mister X* by Dean Motter *Batman/Grendel* by Matt Wagner *Captain America: White, Daredevil: Yellow, Spider-Man: Blue, Hulk: Gray* by Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale *Grendel: Red White & Black, Grendel: Black, White & Red* by Matt Wagner

What about Sin City? Great video

Thank goodness I was starting to go through mint hunter withdrawals lol best channel

Superman Red Son is one of the top 10 of all-time i think, as is Daredevil Born Again, and Sheriff of Babylon by Tom King/ Mitch Gerads

Great list

Personally I would’ve added Lone Wolf and Cub and Iron Man Demon in a Bottle. Great list!

Love the Batman and the Morrison representation but have you not read Irredeemable? It has to be on that list.

Quite a few of those I don’t know, but it is certainly incomplete without some mention of Claremont’s XMen or the Claremont/ Miller Wolverine…

Serious house on serious earth is probably my next novel

Props for including Contract with God; I'd add Concrete and (likely many others) Dark Phoenix Saga

I'll start by saying my list is both bias and I just haven't read tons of series 5 - Invincible (only read 1st compendium so far but love it) 4 - Judge Dredd: The Pit 3 - Walking Dead 2 - Watchmen 1 - Judge Dredd: America my top ten was mostly populated with Dredd arcs so here a top 5 lol

Id put Batman New 52, All Star Superman and Black Hammer way way higher and Killing Joke at #1. I am planning on reading a few of these this year for the first time including Sandman, just finished reading the Batman vampire saga, loved it.

Besides what has already been mentioned in the video, here are a few of my favorite original graphic novels Superhero OGNs Silver Surfer: The Ultimate Cosmic Experience by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby The Death of Captain Marvel by Jim Starlin Batman: Son of the Demon by Mike W. Barr & Jerry Bingham God Loves, Man Kills by Chris Claremont & Brent Anderson Emperor Doom by Dave Michelinie & Bob Hall Spider-Man: Spirits of the Earth by Charles Vess The Power of Shazam by Jerry Ordway Superman: Peace on Earth by Paul Dini & Alex Ross Wonder Woman: The True Amazon by Jill Thompson Fantastic Four: Full Circle by Alex Ross Non-Superhero OGNs Chandler: Red Tide by Jim Steranko Our Cancer Year by Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, & Frank Stack Ghost World by Daniel Clowes Fax from Sajevo by Joe Kubert Pride of Baghdad by Brian K Vaughan & Nico Henrichon Scary Godmother by Jill Thompson My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf Kill My Mother by Jules Feiffer Smile by Raina Telgemeier Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith

Pleasant surprise to see PERSEPOLIS so high on the list, marvellous book.

Top 5 runs I've read SO FAR (and that I can think of recently): 5. Clean Room: Simone 4. Plastic: Wagner 3. The Lone Ranger: Russell 2. Starman: Robinson 1. Hawkman: Venditti (biased, lol)

No Dark Phoenix Saga and Abbnett and Lanning were also writing Nova when they were writing Guardians. Both runs were good. Geoff John's Flash and JSA!

Would suggest "100 best comic runs" as a title to avoid confusion.

Leaven’s last hunt should be squeezed into there somewhere! Otherwise great list!🎉

If you put manga you should have added some Junji Ito's work, also Akira and Evangelion which are peak stayed out. And hell no, Injustice doesn't deseve to be on the list

I felt the entire age of apocalypse was very well, drawn and incredible story

Like your list. But some of your pics are mangas / Franco-Belgium "bande dessinée". And if you talk about "comics" in the broad terme to include those formats, then i'm very much not okay with more than half of your list.

DMZ, Sin City, Tom Strong, Ronin and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Just have to say that Dreadstar is way higher on list for me. Especially most of the first 24 issues.

I would add Good Asian, Something is Killing the Children, and Gideon Falls

All Star Superman, Black Hammer & TDKR are all too low but great list otherwise! You should check out: Crisis on Infinite Earths (definitely a big influence on Infinity Gauntlet & Hickman Avengers) Claremont & Byrne X-men Jason Aaron & RM Guera’s Scalped, which is a straight up masterpiece if you like crime comics. Also The Savage Dragon since you like Hellboy and Invincible.

Make a longer version

Missing Fables for me and maybe killadelphia. also transmetropolitan is in the top10 for me

Definitely add Frank Miller's hard-boiled and and Geoff Jones Shaolin cowboy and Frank Miller's Daredevil original run Bernie wrightson original Swamp Thing run but I agree with most of your list being DC and Indies always felt DC and Indies had better stories an artwork than Marvel

I would put Daredevil Born Again by Frank Miller

Criminal, Deadly Class, Brubaker Captain America, Sandman, jason Aaron's Thor, The Many Deaths if Laila Starr, infidel, Fatale, Desender/Asunder, and Locke & Key. Honorable Mention Moore's Swamp Thing and of course Watchman is great

For me, I’d have to add Thor:God of Thunder, Many Deaths of Laila Starr, these savage shores, do a power bomb, and infamous iron man.

Honestly, that's a great list. The only thing I can think of, off the top of my head, that you didn't mention would be The Maxx. But that only counts as a graphic novel if you count reprints of monthly issues.

I own maus but havent read it yet. Going to start now.

'Ice Cream Man' is so good

Kravens last hunt darn spellcheck!😮

I would say Batman Hush, Death and Return of Superman, and the Star Wars Dark Empire series should be on that list. Those are easy ones to reread again and again. Oh and Transformers More Than Meets the Eye IDW series is a sneaky add.

I would have added "HAPPY!" By Grant Morrison

10 - Iron Man: Extremis 9 - Superman: Space Age 8 - DC: The New Frontier 7 - Batman: Fortress 6 - Captain America: White 5 - Nightwing: Leaping Into the Light 4 - Superman For All Seasons 3 - The Walking Dead 2 - Detective Comics: Terminal 1 - Batman: Year One I wanna add at least one Sin City graphic novel, but I haven't read any of them in nearly 10 years. If I were including one-shots, I would remove Iron Man: Extremis, keep the top 2 the same, and move the rest down to make room for "Dante" (Image Comics) at #3.

My favorites, more or less: 1. Watchmen (Moore & Gibbons) 2. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (C. Ware) 3. Black Hole (C. Burnes) 4. From Hell (Moore & Campbell) 5. My Friend Dahmer (Derf) 6. Berlin (J. Lutes) 7. Sabrina (N. Drnaso) 8. Multiple Warheads (B. Graham) 9. Uzamaki (J. Ito) 10. Acting Class (N. Drnaso)

The original Amalgam DC / Marvel Comics collaboration is one I would have included in this list.

I would have had Wonder Woman the Perez run, and Xfactor the Peter David run (my personal favorite)

Break those down into 10's and give explanation of ranking. 100-90, 89-80 down to your top 10.

I loved “The Elixir” 2011

Dc Side- great darkness saga Marvel- Dark phoenix saga

Alan Moore hates the Graphic novel term

As ,long as Grant Morrison's "Doom Patrol" is in the Top 10 this list is fine with me.

From what I've read so far and In no particular order except first and last: Savage She Hulk Rainbow Rowell She Hulk Peter David's X-Factor (Vol.2) Final Night Supreme Power Planet Hulk Peter David's She Hulk Boxers And Saints Injustice 2 Injustice Ultimate Spiderman Astro City Gotham Central Warren Ellis' The Authority The Walking Dead Crisis On Infinite Earths Geoff Johns/Peter Tomasi/Tony Bedard Green Lantern Geoff Johns Flash (Vol. 3) Infinity Gauntlet Jeff Lemire's The Terrifics Invincible Iron Man Civil War Sinestro (New 52) All Star Superman Dr. Strange/Dr. Doom Triumph and Torment Madame Mirage Avatar The Rift Avatar The Search Starlight Earth 2 (New 52)

A great one I would add in there is the Marvel Zombies. It's so good!

The Flash: Blitz-where Hunter Zoloman becomes the new Zoom and tortures Wally West-four intense issues

bro put the the boys comic in top 100

Watchmen is deserving - Sin City tho?

Green Arrow & The Longbow Hunters saga gotta be top 50 imo.

Superman Red Son

I would have to have Fatale in there somewhere

Damn no love for spawn ?

I know there are some Western comics people always cite as "the greatest". But I don't feel like there's ACTUALLY a definitive and widely popular list of the greatest western comics. If you look at Japanese Manga in comparison, there's a pretty clear cut list of the greatest works. Whereas in the west you kind of have two different lists, one would be popularity, and the other would be quality of the work and the specific run. This whole tradition of western comics to just make endless runs that never really conclude or when they do they are rebooted several times over makes it impossible to for instance reconcile the popularity of a character like Spider-man, and actually cite exactly WHICH of his comics and runs are legitimately GOOD all the way through. In fact the two lists differ to such an extent that while you may find Spider-man at the top of popularity you will barely find any spider-man comics ACTUALLY at the top of stories. There's also a massive problem with old stories, and old art becoming extremely outdated. The initial Spawn run for instance looks insanely amateur to the current comics. This adds an additional category for the "best comics" of all time, which would be the "best for their time" category. Because MOST of these don't actually hold up. One thing I really wish we'd see more of in DC and Marvel and other big comic IPs is remakes, not just reboots. But actual rewritten and repainted DEFINITIVE versions of the classical stories. Modernized and adapted to modern quality, while retaining the foundation and classic stories to a large degree. I feel like that would be such a great way to rejuvinate and basically honor the legacy stories. While working somewhat like a movie adaptation, where you may cut, alter, improve designs etc to fit a higher quality definitive version with new art and everything. Oh well.

100? I'm going to do terrible on Friday's quiz.

Batgirl Year One was good too.

Oh my, oh my. Calling this "best graphic novels of all time" is just not right. "Donald Duck", "Sweet Tooth", "The Walking Soap Opera"... Never heard of "The Days That Disappear" (le Boucher)? "Old Man Logan" (Millar), "Sin City" (Hard Goodbye, Yellow Bastard, Big Fat Kill), "The Sculptor" (McCloud), "Top Ten" (Moore), Paco Roca graphic novels, multiple issues of B-man better than "The Cult"...

ONE PIECE AND BERSERK?! 🗣🔥

The maxx!! You forgot the maxx

Well, there are some HUGE misses although the list is good. ex. Scalped, Sin City, Criminal, Sleeper

u need to compare mangas and comics

Nick Fury vs SHIELD did not get in ?

Not in the order: The Nikopol Trilogy The Metabarons The Incal My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Franquin's Last Laugh Blacksad V for Vendetta Maus The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck A Distant Neighborhood (Jiro Taniguchi) Calvin and Hobbes Hitler = SS

DC/Vertigo Slams

Venom. Donny Cates

I don’t really get what everyone loves about Persepolis? I read the first book and wasn’t all that impressed. Didn’t even feel the need to read the second. It felt like though some wild things happened, and it is all biographical , nothing about how the story was told or drawn engaged me like I was with Maus.

I think lists like this are unhelpful without even just a little context. I'm definitely interested in checking a few of these out but I'd like to know why they made your list.

This dude looks like Stipe Miočić. :d

Ultimate spiderman

A run of comics reprinted into book form is not a graphic novel.

The only one I disagree with is "The Boys." The Boy's to me is kinda.. not good?. I also would have included Grant's Run with Batman and Robin, as well as the 90s Nightwing run.

Forgot sin city and blacksad

1. One piece 2. Berserk 3. Claymore 4. Naruto 5. Bleach 6. Demon slayer 7. One punch man 8. My hero academia 9. Fist of the North Star 10. Fullmetal alchemist For non manga 1. Locke and key 2. Preacher 3. Hellboy 4. Elfquest 5. Sandman 6. Sin city 7. Slaine 8. Defoe 9. Requiem vampire knight 10. ABC warriors Not necessarily in that order

Am I the only one that likes Fables?

New Teen Titans

you need to read more manga bro, reply here if you want some recommendations, but i guarantee you a common mainstream manga is better than your favorite American comic

Where’s Berserk?

I wonder if one day Americans will discover that comics, and graphic novels in particular, can be so much more than the world of superheroes (often mediocre), this is why, with a few exceptions, European comics are superior to American ones.

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