Best Graphic Novels of All Time

Those mid-term vacations were overwhelming. Leave me at a sequestered place with mounds of comics in hand, li'l bit of junk to nibble upon, and I'd forget what's the current episode in the world. And I don't think I am alone holding on to the thought, am I? Either it's words, or it's pictures. But graphic novels? Graphic novels incorporate both. I cannot believe there exists a person who did not savor reading graphic novels in their childhood years. A time when you believed Superman existed, when cats and dogs talked (Thank you! I still dread dogs), sexy women had super-powers (whoopie!), and bats did much, much more than sleeping upside down (straight face!).

The best graphic novels ever did not see merely kids as their followers. The Three Musketeers had content easily comprehended by all readers. Batman, on the other hand, is insurmountable amalgamation of both arts and words, and it would be a crime not to include it in the list of the most famous novels in graphic genre. There were many more, the best-est best being mentioned here. A quick run through my picks, randomly put just to minimize controversy, on the best graphic novels of all time is enough to crop up disagreements between you and me (ah, well!).

Best Graphic Novels: For Kids
The superpowers, the humor, and world totally different from ours... kids have a great time reading these books. For time that never comes back, savor the present by adding the following to your kitty! Here are my top 10 picks for graphic novels for kids!

• The Three Musketeers - Jim Pipe
• Babymouse Burns Rubber - Jennifer L. Holm & Matthew Holm
• The Good Neighbors - Holly Black and Ted Naifeh
• The Good Neighbors Book Two: Kith - Holly Black
• Johnny Boo & the Happy Apples - James Kochalka
• Knights of the Lunch Table - Frank Cammuso
• Missile Mouse - Jake Parker
• Smile - Raina Telgemeier
• Bone - Jeff Smith
• The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook - Eleanor Davis

Best Graphic Novels: For Adults
I have something to confess. No matter how much the must-read novels for adults soared high, I had a hard time switching myself to the category of adults. I wasn't much successful. Given a chance, I'll pick up The Adventures of Tintin over any other adult graphic saga. Well, that's about me. However, the following picks make up for my top 10 picks on the best graphic novels for adults:

• Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
• Jinx - Brian Michael Bendis
• Eyes of the Storm (Bone: 3) - Jeff Smith
• The Complete Maus : A Survivor's Tale - Art Spiegelman
• 100 Bullets: First Shot, Last Call - Eduardo Risso
• A Drunken Dream and Other Stories - Moto Hagio
• Stuck Rubber Baby - Howard Cruse
• Strangers in Paradise: Love Me Tender - Terry Moore
• Our Cancer Year - Harvey Peker
• Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead - Peter David and Richard Isanove

Best Graphic Novels: For Girls
Oh, I tell you, there isn't much of a difference in what guys see in a graphic novel, and what girls see. However, personally speaking, I always loved the female power figures, super-girls, and rich women, clad in sexy attires, and figure oh-so-enviable (too silly, I know!). If your chronicles are similar to mine, you will love the following best novels of all time meant for girls to bask:

• Make Me a Woman - Vanessa Davis
• Absolute Boyfriend - Yuu Watase
• American Born Chinese - Gene Luen Yang
• Girl Stories - Lauren Weinstein
• Avalon High - Meg Cabot
• Boys Over Flowers - Hani Yori Dango
• I Love Led Zeppelin - Ellen Forney
• French Milk - Lucy Knisley
• Three Days in Europe - Antony Johnston
• Blankets - Craig Thompson

Best Graphic Novels: A Sum Up
So, how do we make a concise list? No, I didn't eenie-meenie-miney-moe the names and put them here. They are just... what people love reading and savoring. The names include favorites of kids, girls, and adults. Eradicating any room of disagreement, following are the best-est best selling novels of all time in the graphic genre:

• Berlin: City of Stones - Jason Lutes
• Bone - Jeff Smith
• The Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Kim Deitch
• Blankets - Craig Thompson
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - Klaus Janson and Frank Miller
• Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
• Jimmy Corrigan, the smartest kid on Earth - Chris Ware
• The Three Musketeers - Jim Pipe
• Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories - Gilbert Hernandez
• The Adventures of Tintin - Georges Remi (Pen name: Herge)

Every animated movie that I see flashes a cascade of events of my childhood. With less pins and needles to deal with, belief in everything and nothing, a world of my own, and addiction to graphic characters. That was my childhood. Getting back there is not possible, but a read up on all those graphic novels gives me away one of those rarest moments; tears and smile at the same time.