Definitive Autobiographical Comics

Maus is Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning account of his father's survival of the Holocaust, told through anthropomorphic animals.

Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's memoir of growing up during the Iranian Revolution, a landmark of autobiographical comics.

Fun Home is Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir about her complex relationship with her father and her own coming-of-age as a gay woman.

Blankets is Craig Thompson's sweeping memoir of first love, faith, and growing up in rural Wisconsin, drawn with extraordinary beauty.