10 Best Graphic Novels of 2022

The easiest way to characterize a graphic novel is as a book-length work of sequential art fiction. It shares many traits with prose books, such as having a start, middle, and end. The story is told through a combination of words and images. Images, however, are more than just pictures; they also include information that is essential to comprehending story aspects that are not vocally presented. Like the verbal elements, which give information not shown in the photographs but do not caption. Here are 10 Best graphic novels of 2022.

Coming Back By Jessi Zabarsky

Everyone in their village possesses magic in their skeletons, but Preet is the most powerful. Valissa has a chance to prove herself when their house is assaulted, but doing so requires leaving Preet behind. Preet is sent into a new world after breaking one of the village’s most cherished norms for the first time while acting independently. This is a heart-warming tale of two young women who harm one other while trying to prove they are destined to be together. This stunning graphic novel is a love story that explores how a youthful relationship can endure despite challenges.

Pixel of You By Ananth Hirsh

AI and augmentation will affect both everything and nothing in the near future. Following a catastrophic event, Indira is a human girl who has been cybernetically enhanced, and Fawn is one of the first human-presenting AIs. They both work as interns at the same gallery, but neither is particularly impressed by the other’s photographs. However, following a significant public scandal, their mentor issues them with a choice: either collaborate on a project or permanently quit her gallery. Astonishing and illuminating for both of them, the two reluctantly start working together. In Pixels of You, Indira and Fawn navigate each other, the world around them, and what it is to be human as they see their rivalry slowly turn into a friendship and then into something more.

The Greatest Thing By Sarah Winifred Searle

Now that Winifred’s two closest friends—and only friends—have transferred to a private school, she must navigate high school on her own on the first day of her second year. She isn’t left alone for long, though. She meets Oscar and April, two eccentric classmates, in her art class. Through secret sleepovers, second-hand store browsing, and zine authoring, the three form a close friendship. Winifred is finally coming out of her shell, but she has a secret that she can’t bring herself to tell April and Oscar, let alone anybody else. This lie threatens to ruin her new connections. Rising sensation Sarah Winifred Searle tells a moving tale of love, friendship, and self-acceptance with stunning artwork and open narration.

The Forest By Thomas Ott

The Forest is a graphic novella written entirely through twenty-five distinctive pictures that only Swiss artist Thomas Ott is capable of creating. A little boy stealthily leaves a family funeral and disappears into the heart of the forest, where he must face his greatest fear and decide which direction to go. Ott draws using the scratchboard method, which involves covering a white surface with a black coating and scraping it away to reveal the white behind. Ott transforms the medium into the ideal vehicle for his sinister, horror-infused morality tales. To best display every fine detail of Ott’s virtuoso talent, this lovely volume will be printed on quality art paper with Pantone Black ink.

Mamo By Sas Milledge

In her first work of original graphic fiction, cartoonist Sas Milledge, The Lost Carnival: A Dick Grayson Graphic Novel makes an astounding debut by addressing the issue of how each of us balances our obligations with our aspirations for the future. After her grandmother Mamo passes away, Orla O’Reilly, the youngest in a long line of hedge witches, is forced to go back to her house. Following her Mamo’s demise, crops have soured, the oceans are impossible to fish in, and even Jo Manalo’s attic has been overtaken by a poltergeist. And to make matters worse, Mamo, or rather her misplaced bones, appear to be the culprit. Orla takes on the burden of taming her Mamo’s spirit, preserving her hometown.

The Ghost In You By Ed Brubaker

Here is the latest instalment in the popular Reckless series. Another unique graphic novel starring hired troublemaker Ethan Reckless is presented to us by best-selling crime noir authors Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. However, this time it’s the winter of 1989 and Ethan is away, so Anna will have to handle this task alone. Anna will become embroiled in the long-running mystery of one of Hollywood’s most notorious murder houses when a cinematic scream queen begs her to demonstrate that the mansions she is restoring aren’t haunted, a location with many dark secrets, some of which might just kill her.

The Ice Cream Man By W.Maxwell Prince

A comic book series that defies genre, ICE CREAM MAN includes several “one-shot” stories of loss, wonder, and redemption. Each episode has a unique group of odd folks that struggle with their own unique sundae of pain. The Ice Cream Man, a storyteller, and seller of sweets are on the periphery of all of them, like the twinkling music of his bright truck. The person who has the power to completely alter the path of your life with the snap of his fingers. Four more regrettable, exhausting episodes of downfall in the critically acclaimed, top-selling anthological comic book series ICE CREAM MAN are presented here. A man descends his family tree, an aircraft crashes, and Oscar’s blood pressure drops to below 90/60! It’s a collection of comedowns that have been thoughtfully selected for interested and dejected content consumers.

Step By Bloody Step By Simon Spurrier

Together, they traverse a remarkable fantasy realm. If they stray from the path, the air itself awakens and pulls them back. The girl is unaware that dangers worse than bandits and creatures lie ahead. Their relationship will be put to the ultimate test by CIVILIZATION with all of its temptations and betrayals. The Eisner Award nominees for CODA (official selection Angoulême 2021), MATIAS BERGARA (Hellblazer, THE SCUMBAG), and SI SPURRIER have created a fantasy masterpiece titled STEP (X-Men Legacy, Hellblazer, The Spire). Fans of Princess Mononoke, ISOLA, and the avant-garde works of Moebius will adore this completely wordless visual feast that expands the boundaries of sequential art.

Orphan and the five beasts by James Stokoe

The fighter “Orphan Mo,” inspired by her master’s final words, sets out to track down and eliminate five former pupils who are now posing a threat to the country by corrupting it with their demonic abilities. James Stokoe adds his talent for incredibly rich fantasy imagery and excessive violence to this well-known tale of retribution in a way that is a combination of Five Deadly Venoms and surreal grindhouse. The epic kung-fu masterpiece’s first arc comes to an end with this; it will be continued in a forthcoming new miniseries.

Walk Me To The Corner By Anneli Furmark

Two adult boys, a lakeside home with their initials carved into the picnic table, a devoted husband and family, and a chance meeting at a party that changes everything. In her mid-fifties, Elise is happy with her station in life. But as soon as she sees Dagmar, she is enthralled. Friendly texting quickly transitions to eye contact, which then quickly transforms into the kind of intensity and longing Elise had no idea her life was missing. Despite their worries, they can’t help it; they are both happily married.

Elise’s stable and predictable life is irrevocably changed by their encounter. Elise’s husband makes an effort to encourage her investigation, but he also starts an illicit relationship with a postgraduate student in her thirties who is significantly younger. Elise finds the situation to be to cliché. Elise falls more and more in love with Dagmar as her marriage breaks down. She is stranded, lost, and entirely alone for the first time in her adult life and looking for someone to blame—the other woman—but Dagmar is satisfied to continue in her marriage. She is forced to confront the fact that she actually initiated it while she is lost in the chaos of a breakdown.

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