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Best Biographical Comics
A list of graphic biographies and autobiographies.
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The Complete Persepolis
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4.40 avg rating — 201,257 ratings
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The Complete Maus
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4.58 avg rating — 247,886 ratings
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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Alison Bechdel (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 198,551 ratings
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Blankets
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4.06 avg rating — 124,019 ratings
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Stitches: A Memoir
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4.06 avg rating — 27,790 ratings
score: 873,
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American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar
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4.03 avg rating — 6,936 ratings
score: 779,
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8 people voted
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Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
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3.88 avg rating — 28,472 ratings
score: 588,
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6 people voted
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Persepolis 2
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4.22 avg rating — 78,355 ratings
score: 579,
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6 people voted
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Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
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4.05 avg rating — 20,438 ratings
score: 492,
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5 people voted
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One Hundred Demons
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4.18 avg rating — 9,793 ratings
score: 489,
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Trotsky: A Graphic Biography
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3.57 avg rating — 486 ratings
score: 437,
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5 people voted
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Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir
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Liz Prince (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 13,527 ratings
score: 394,
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4 people voted
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March: Book One (March, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 56,897 ratings
score: 393,
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4 people voted
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Kafka
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4.05 avg rating — 4,084 ratings
score: 390,
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4 people voted
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Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
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Allie Brosh (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 214,565 ratings
score: 390,
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4 people voted
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Feynman
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Jim Ottaviani (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 7,072 ratings
score: 380,
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4 people voted
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Laika
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score: 374,
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4 people voted
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The 14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography
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3.81 avg rating — 856 ratings
score: 365,
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4 people voted
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J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography
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3.60 avg rating — 364 ratings
score: 357,
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4 people voted
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Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography
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4.22 avg rating — 3,286 ratings
score: 335,
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4 people voted
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They Called Us Enemy
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4.42 avg rating — 50,871 ratings
score: 294,
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3 people voted
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Buddha, Vol. 1: Kapilavastu (Buddha #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 8,517 ratings
score: 292,
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3 people voted
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March: Book Two (March, #2)
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4.49 avg rating — 28,944 ratings
score: 290,
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3 people voted
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Displacement: A Travelogue
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Lucy Knisley (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 6,455 ratings
score: 290,
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3 people voted
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Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
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4.02 avg rating — 16,597 ratings
score: 289,
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3 people voted
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Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
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Lucy Knisley (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 22,435 ratings
score: 285,
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3 people voted
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Sisters (Smile, #2)
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Raina Telgemeier (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 109,334 ratings
score: 284,
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3 people voted
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An Age of License: A Travelogue
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Lucy Knisley (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 6,453 ratings
score: 282,
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3 people voted
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Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas (Primates, 1)
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Jim Ottaviani (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 7,314 ratings
score: 281,
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3 people voted
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Little White Duck: A Childhood in China
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3.78 avg rating — 4,899 ratings
score: 280,
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3 people voted
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Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography
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3.87 avg rating — 5,911 ratings
score: 273,
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3 people voted
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Spinning
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3.89 avg rating — 23,231 ratings
score: 265,
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3 people voted
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Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow
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3.80 avg rating — 1,185 ratings
score: 244,
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3 people voted
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A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman
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3.78 avg rating — 553 ratings
score: 224,
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3 people voted
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Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag: A Memoir
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Michael Anthony (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 142 ratings
score: 198,
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2 people voted
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Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty
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G. Neri (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 6,910 ratings
score: 197,
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2 people voted
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Epileptic
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3.89 avg rating — 13,758 ratings
score: 196,
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2 people voted
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Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
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Sarah Leavitt (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 1,962 ratings
score: 195,
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2 people voted
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Lovecraft
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3.83 avg rating — 1,125 ratings
score: 194,
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2 people voted
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Vagabond, Volume 1
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4.48 avg rating — 16,081 ratings
score: 194,
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2 people voted
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The Beast of Chicago: An Account of the Life and Crimes of Herman W. Mudgett, Known to the World As H.H. Holmes
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3.83 avg rating — 756 ratings
score: 193,
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3 people voted
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Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
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Alison Bechdel (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 35,178 ratings
score: 193,
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2 people voted
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Johnny Wander, Vol. 1: Don't Burn the House Down
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4.34 avg rating — 408 ratings
score: 191,
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2 people voted
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Death to the Tsar
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3.66 avg rating — 270 ratings
score: 191,
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2 people voted
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Vlad the Impaler: the Man Who Was Dracula
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3.01 avg rating — 248 ratings
score: 190,
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2 people voted
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Gender Queer: A Memoir
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Maia Kobabe (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 75,575 ratings
score: 190,
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2 people voted
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French Milk
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Lucy Knisley (Goodreads Author)
3.33 avg rating — 8,407 ratings
score: 189,
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2 people voted
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Fats Waller
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3.49 avg rating — 57 ratings
score: 186,
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2 people voted
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Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout
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4.03 avg rating — 6,108 ratings
score: 184,
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2 people voted
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Nat Turner
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4.04 avg rating — 1,776 ratings
score: 183,
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2 people voted
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Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?
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Harold Schechter (Writer)
4.23 avg rating — 4,380 ratings
score: 183,
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2 people voted
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Houdini: The Handcuff King
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Jason Lutes (Writer)
3.48 avg rating — 1,468 ratings
score: 181,
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2 people voted
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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
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4.40 avg rating — 34,718 ratings
score: 178,
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Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith
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4.10 avg rating — 2,499 ratings
score: 168,
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Gandhi: A Manga Biography
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3.41 avg rating — 596 ratings
score: 165,
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2 people voted
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Che: A Graphic Biography
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3.39 avg rating — 328 ratings
score: 161,
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The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans
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3.79 avg rating — 572 ratings
score: 160,
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Isadora Duncan: A Graphic Biography
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3.49 avg rating — 310 ratings
score: 156,
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Frida Kahlo: The Story of Her Life
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4.30 avg rating — 1,175 ratings
score: 155,
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Darwin: A Graphic Biography
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3.80 avg rating — 211 ratings
score: 150,
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Me and the Devil Blues: The Unreal Life of Robert Johnson, Volume 1
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3.82 avg rating — 343 ratings
score: 148,
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Thoreau: A Sublime Life
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3.53 avg rating — 647 ratings
score: 148,
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King: A Comics Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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3.68 avg rating — 203 ratings
score: 147,
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Ronald Reagan: A Graphic Biography
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3.24 avg rating — 96 ratings
score: 143,
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Hokusai: A Graphic Biography
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3.68 avg rating — 307 ratings
score: 110,
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Carlos Gardel
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3.81 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Mourir partir revenir. Le jeu des hirondelles
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3.81 avg rating — 4,680 ratings
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Escape from "Special"
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Miss Lasko-Gross (Goodreads Author)
3.27 avg rating — 334 ratings
score: 100,
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Little Fish: A Memoir from a Different Kind of Year
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Ramsey Beyer (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 1,430 ratings
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The Parish: An Americorps Story
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3.02 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Todo Paracuellos
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4.52 avg rating — 344 ratings
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Bhimayana
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4.30 avg rating — 811 ratings
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Lighter Than My Shadow
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4.40 avg rating — 6,803 ratings
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By the Forces of Gravity: A Memoir
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Rebecca Fish Ewan (Goodreads Author)
4.69 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story
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Debbie Tung (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 18,507 ratings
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Part Of It: Comics and Confessions
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Ariel Schrag (Goodreads Author)
3.30 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Mandela and the General
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4.16 avg rating — 354 ratings
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Zanjan: A Graphic Novel Based on Actual Events
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Aaron Emmel (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Verissimus: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
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Donald J. Robertson (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 368 ratings
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Che
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3.76 avg rating — 479 ratings
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A Mess of Everything
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Miss Lasko-Gross (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Burma Chronicles
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13,914 ratings
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Todo Los Profesionales
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4.11 avg rating — 70 ratings
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A Gardener in the Wasteland: Jotiba Phule's Fight for Liberty
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3.98 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir
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Maggie Thrash (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 10,900 ratings
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Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie
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3.62 avg rating — 1,670 ratings
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Vincent
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4.08 avg rating — 4,432 ratings
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The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam: An Illustrated Memoir
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Good-Bye, Chunky Rice
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Susceptible
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Line of Fire: Diary of an Unknown Soldier
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3.72 avg rating — 335 ratings
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The Sculptor
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Scott McCloud (Goodreads Author)
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Calling Dr. Laura
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The White Mouse: the Story of Nancy Wake
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The Illustrated Wild Boy: Reflections on the Presentation of Self
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John Du Cane (Goodreads Author)
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Conquering Everest: The Lives of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay: A Graphic Novel (Campfire Graphic Novels)
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Lewis Helfand (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Che
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Billie Holiday
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The Photographer
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The Hospital Suite
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John Porcellino (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 1,209 ratings
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C'mon ppl. Maus is clearly a better book than Persepolis.
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Just a stronger work of literature. It transcends its purely biographical roots to say something greater. Persepolis does this too but to a lesser extent.Also the artwork far excels that of persepolis. Spiegelman reined in his finest artistry and opted for something rougher and simpler but incredibly effective. Satrapi on the other hand simply can't draw that well.
Incidentally i think the film of Persepolis works a lot better than the GN.
Oh yeah, and i thought fun home was awful too. Seemed like lots of clinical, psycho-analysis to fill out the absence of any worthwhile storyline or emotional content.
What about including travelogues? Aren't they essentially biographical accounts? If so, I think Pyongyang by Guy Delisle should be on this list.
Feel free to add it. Or actually, I'll go ahead. It definitely belongs on the list.
There's an issue here mixing biography and autobiography. They're not the same thing.Also, delete Goodbye Chunky Rice.
Can anyone figure out why there are so many comics biographies of Che Guevara. There's at least four different ones! (not to mention Trotsky by Rick Geary.)
I'd argue that autobiographies fall under the larger umbrella of biographies, but not vice versa.
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