Twenty Favorite Graphic Novels in Translation

(in alphabetical order, and excluding my favorite wordless graphic novels, even if they were created by foreign artists)

Alone by Chabouté
Approximate Continuum Comics by Lewis Trondheim
Barrel of Monkeys by Florent Ruppert and Jérôme Mulot
Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët
Bigfoot by Pascal Girard
Billy Fog and the Gift of Trouble Sight by Guillaume Bianco
Blue Is the Warmest Color by Jul Maroh
The City of Belgium by Brecht Evens
A Distant Neighborhood by Jiro Taniguchi
Epileptic by David B.
Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan
5,000 km Per Second by Manuele Fior
Interiorae by Gabriella Giandelli
Jetlag: Five Graphic Novellas by Etgar Keret
Pinocchio by Winshluss
Poem Strip by Dino Buzzati
Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms by Fumiyo Kouno
What Is Obscenity? The Story of a Good For Nothing Artist and Her Pussy by Rokudenashiko
Yotsuba&! (series) by Kiyohiko Azuma
Yukiko’s Spinach by Frédéric Boilet

— May 3, 2021