Historical & Historical Fiction Graphic Novels

Graphic novels depicting important events in history.
Updated September 19, 2022
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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Rebecca Hall
Paper Book
Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the passage across the Atlantic. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. And then they were erased from history. In WakeRebecca Hall, a historian, a granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the...
The Complete Maus
Art Spiegelman
Paper Book
'A quiet triumph, moving and simple - impossible to describe accurately, and impossible to achieve in any medium but comics' - Washington Post Maus is the harrowing story of the author's parents, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living in Hitler's Europe, and then his...
American Born Chinese
Gene Luen Yang
Paper Book
Original Series Now Available on Disney+ A tour-de-force by New York Times bestselling graphic novelist Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to...
Safe Area Goražde : the war in Eastern Bosnia 1992-95
Joe Sacco
Paper Book
In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War, which had teetered on the brink of obliteration for three and a half years. Still surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces, the mainly Muslim people of...
Footnotes in Gaza: A Graphic Novel
Joe Sacco
Paper Book
Rafah, a town at the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Raw concrete buildings front rubbish-strewn alleys. The narrow streets are crowded with young children and unemployed men. Situated on the border with Egypt, swaths of Rafah have been reduced to rubble. Rafah is today and...

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