Alberto Breccia, Mort Cinder (1963)

 

Mort Cinder by Hector German Oesterheld and Alberto Breccia.

Breccia's art is the real star of these philosophical, dreamlike tales of an immortal soldier who dies a thousand times and is reincarnated throughout history as a key participant in some of the most tragic battles and apocalyptic events.

Joe Brainard, Nancy Collages (1963)

Nancy Collgaes by Joe Brainard.

In 1963 poet and artist Brainard began cutting up Ernie Bushmiller's classic Nancy into new assemblages, recombining and detourning the comics into profane, looking-glass versions of themselves. Brainard was one of the first to incorporate comics and appropriation into a large part of his artistic practice. (He also adapted his friends' poetry into comics form in his C Comics magazine, but those will have to wait until 1964.)

 

Hergé, The Castafiore Emerald (1963)

 

The Castafiore Emerald by Hergé.

In many ways the best Tintin album but also the least typical. In place of the usual globe-trotting adventure we get an exquisite farce with all the precision of a stage-play or classic film.

Shigeru Mizuki, Akuma-kun (1963)

Akuma-kun by Shigeru Mizuki.

Groundbreaking series by the yokai horror mangaka about a little boy who can summon demons. Very similar to Mizuki's long-running Kitaro series, Akuma-kun is full of the same inventive grotesques and monsters. 

Daniel Clowes, Lloyd Llewellyn (1986)

Lloyd Llewellyn #1 by Dan Clowes.
 

Lorenzo Mattotti, Fires (1986)

 

Fires by Lorenzo Mattotti. 

Art Spiegelman, Maus, Volume One: My Father Bleeds History (1986)

 

Maus, Volume One: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman.