📚 Graphic Novels & Comics

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The drawn story that grew up: sequential art, from newspaper strips to the bound long-form works that made the form a literature.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject graphic novels in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
The Giver	Lois Lowry	1993	106
Coraline	Neil Gaiman	2001	94
Watchmen	Alan Moore	1986	43
Dragonball (Doragon bo-ru)	鳥山明 [Akira Toriyama]	1984	37
V for Vendetta	Alan Moore	1988	36
Uglies	Scott Westerfeld	2005	34
Powers	Brian Michael Bendis	2000	32
Transformers	Simon Furman	2003	32
Parable of the Sower	Octavia E. Butler	1993	23
Arkham Asylum	Grant Morrison	1920	22
Battle royale	Kōshun Takami	1999	22
Drama	Raina Telgemeier	2012	22
The Dark Knight returns	Frank Miller	1986	17
Dream Country	Neil Gaiman	1991	17
Batman	Jeph Loeb	1994	17
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life	Bryan Lee O'Malley	2004	17
Amulet	Kazu Kibuishi	2008	17
Akira, Vol. 1	Katsuhiro Ōtomo	1984	15
The Kurosagi corpse delivery service	Eiji Otsuka	2006	15
Ghost World	Daniel Clowes	1997	13
Death Note, Vol. 2	Tsugumi Ohba	2005	13
Big Nate - Great Minds Think Alike	Lincoln Peirce	2013	13
Hellsing	Kohta Hirano	2003	12
Mouse Guard Fall 1152	David Petersen	2007	12
Cultural anthropology	Conrad Phillip Kottak	1974	11
Akira, Vol. 2	Katsuhiro Ōtomo	1985	11
美少女戦士セーラームーン 1 [Acts 1-5]	武内直子	1991	11
Bone	Jeff Smith	1997	11
Batman	Greg Rucka	2000	11
Death Note, Vol. 8	Tsugumi Ohba	2005	11

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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