Books like Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth
Jimmy Corrigan, a lonely, timid office worker in his thirties, flies to Michigan to meet the father who left before he was born, and the book follows the family back to the Chicago World's Fair of 1893.
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Rusty Brown
Set at a Nebraska private school across decades, Ware's mosaic novel gives each chapter to a different character in orbit around the lonely Rusty Brown.
Building Stories
A box containing fourteen pamphlets, books, broadsheets, and foldouts that together form the life of an unnamed woman in a small Chicago apartment building.
Clyde Fans
Twenty years in the making, a quiet graphic novel about two bachelor brothers inheriting an obsolete Toronto electric-fan company and the rooms it leaves them with.
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
In 1960s Chicago, a ten-year-old girl who draws herself as a werewolf investigates the murder of her Holocaust-survivor upstairs neighbour in a spiral notebook full of wolf-eyes.
Beverly
Linked comics stories about suburban Midwesterners, teenagers, parents and strangers, whose ordinary days turn slightly and disturbingly sideways.
Stone Fruit
A young queer couple and the niece they love their way towards parenting slip, through a divorce, past the fragile arrangements that held them together.
Love Medicine
The Kashpaws and the Lamartines, two Ojibwe families on a North Dakota reservation, from the 1930s to the 1980s, told in many voices.
The Rabbit Hutch
In the last summer of a decaying Indiana tenement called La Lapinière, a 19-year-old foster-care graduate and her three male housemates try to hold a life together.
Everything I Never Told You
Lydia is dead. So begins the story of the Lees, a Chinese American family in 1970s small-town Ohio, whose favourite daughter is found in the local lake, and whose parents, brother and younger sister were never as close as they seemed.
Sabrina
After a young woman disappears, a video of her murder spreads online, and her sister, her boyfriend and an old friend who takes him in are pulled into a world of grief and conspiracy theories.
Monica
A woman assembles the story of her mother through cults, horror comics, war stories, and genre experiments, searching for a self Clowes keeps rearranging.
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
Weeks after his wife's sudden death, a Ted Hughes scholar in a London flat is visited by Crow, who says he will stay with him and his two young sons until they no longer need him.