14 must-read graphic novels books like Making Comics by Lynda Barry

Cover of Making Comics by Lynda Barry

Making Comics

By: Lynda Barry

4.47

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

The bestselling, idiosyncratic curriculum from a 2019 MacArthur Fellow will teach you how to draw a…

"How old do you have to be to make a bad drawing?"

-Lynda Barry, Making Comics

If you liked the graphic novels plot in Making Comics by Lynda Barry , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris

1. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

By: Emil Ferris

4.56

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monstersis… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice by Ivan Brunetti

2. Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice

By: Ivan Brunetti

3.71

Format: 101 pages, Paperback

The best cartooning is efficient visual storytelling--it is as much a matter of writing as it is of… read more

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  • art
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • how to

3. Goliath

By: Tom Gauld

3.32

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A master of striped-down, powerful storytelling reworks the David-and-Goliath myth. Goliath of Gath… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics

4. Dare to Sketch: A Guide to Drawing on the Go

By: Felix Scheinberger

3.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An inspirational, instructional, and visually stimulating guide to sketching and drawing. Dare to S… read more

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Cover of Monica by Daniel Clowes

5. Monica

By: Daniel Clowes

3.95

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • comix
Cover of Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, Where I'm Likely to Find It, Birthday Girl, The Seventh Man by Jean-Christophe Deveney

6. Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, Where I'm Likely to Find It, Birthday Girl, The Seventh Man

By: Jean-Christophe Deveney

3.67

Format: 153 pages, ebook

Haruki Murakami's stories in graphic novel form for the first time! Haruki Murakami's novels, es… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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7. Acting Class

By: Nick Drnaso

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant and suspenseful follow-up to the Booker-nominated graphic novel Sabrina."Every single p… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comix
Cover of Girl Juice by Benji Nate

8. Girl Juice

By: Benji Nate

3.95

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A hilarious slice of twentysomething life in the twenty-first century Welcome to the Girl Juice … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Gods of Want: Stories by K-Ming Chang

9. Gods of Want: Stories

By: K-Ming Chang

3.68

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Startling stories that center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American wome… read more

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"She claimed she could read palms, but when I gave her mine, she kissed my palms instead of reading them. She said my hands were designed to catch the rain like coins, even though it never rained. Her…"

-K-Ming Chang, Gods of Want: Stories

Cover of Firebugs by Nino Bulling

10. Firebugs

By: Nino Bulling

3.97

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Actually, everything is perfectly okay. Ingken is together with Lily, who seems to be content with … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon) by Austin Kleon

11. Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)

By: Austin Kleon

4.27

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Keep Working. Keep Playing. Keep Creating. In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show You… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • writing
"To be on brand is to be 100% certain of who you are and what you do, and certainly, in art and in life, is not only completely overrated, it is also a roadblock to discovery. Uncertainty is the very …"

-Austin Kleon, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)

Cover of Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic by Lisa Congdon

12. Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic

By: Lisa Congdon

4.08

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Bestselling author, artist, and illustrator Lisa Congdon brings her expertise to this guide to the … read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • writing
  • how to
Cover of Making Comics by Lynda Barry

13. Making Comics

By: Lynda Barry

4.47

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

The bestselling, idiosyncratic curriculum from a 2019 MacArthur Fellow will teach you how to draw a… read more

Similar categories in Lynda Barry's Making Comics book and Lynda Barry's Making Comics

  • art
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comix
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • writing
  • how to
  • education
"How old do you have to be to make a bad drawing?"

-Lynda Barry, Making Comics

Cover of Rave by Jessica   Campbell

14. Rave

By: Jessica Campbell

3.65

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

A queer coming-of-age story, complete with secret cigarettes, gross gym teachers, and a lot of chur… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Fervor by Toby Lloyd

15. Fervor

By: Toby Lloyd

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A chilling and unforgettable story of a close-knit Jewish family in London pushed to the brink when… read more

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Cover of Catwoman Lonely City by Cliff Chiang

16. Catwoman Lonely City

By: Cliff Chiang

4.37

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

In a world without Batman...will Selina Kyle's old wounds tear Gotham City apart? Cliff Chiang writ… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Organ Meats by K-Ming Chang

17. Organ Meats

By: K-Ming Chang

3.35

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Two girls are bound by red string and canine heritage in this vivid tale about female companionship… read more

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Cover of Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland

18. Running Close to the Wind

By: Alexandra Rowland

4.07

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Avra Helvaçi, former field agent of the Araşti Ministry of Intelligence, has accidentally stolen th… read more

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Cover of Upgrade Soul by Ezra Claytan Daniels

19. Upgrade Soul

By: Ezra Claytan Daniels

4.10

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

For their 45th anniversary, Hank and Molly Nonnar decide to undergo an experimental rejuvenation pr… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • comix
"Please don't seek fuel for your sorrow by comparing yourself to me."

-Ezra Claytan Daniels, Upgrade Soul

"If our identity cannot exist in a vacuum, then what value does it have?"

-Ezra Claytan Daniels, Upgrade Soul

"Funny how sometimes it's the people closest to us keeping us from happiness."

-Ezra Claytan Daniels, Upgrade Soul

"The true beauty of the human animal is nowhere as evident as in its acts of creative expression."

-Ezra Claytan Daniels, Upgrade Soul

Cover of Poems to See by: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry by Julian Peters

20. Poems to See by: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry

By: Julian Peters

4.20

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

A fresh twist on 24 classic poems, these visual interpretations by comic artist Julian Peters will … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • art
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of The Chancellor and the Citadel by Maria Capelle Frantz

21. The Chancellor and the Citadel

By: Maria Capelle Frantz

3.58

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

The world is over. All that remains is the Citadel, and the Chancellor who protects it from the hos… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics

13 Best comics books like Making Comics by Lynda Barry

Transform Your Habits

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

Emil Ferris

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice

Ivan Brunetti

3.71

Goliath

Tom Gauld

3.32

Transform Your Habits

Monica

Daniel Clowes

3.95

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18 Top fiction books like Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, Where I'm Likely to Find It, Birthday Girl, The Seventh Man by Jean-Christophe Deveney

Transform Your Habits

Where Monsters Lie

Kyle Starks

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Saga, Volume 11

Brian K. Vaughan

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Monstress, Vol. 8: Inferno

Marjorie M. Liu

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Mysteries

Bill Watterson

3.76

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