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MusicScribbles:
And no one has bothered mentioning Sandman? The story isn't just amazing, but the art is as well.
There's a lot of stuff out there to be reading in graphic novel land.
Try Chunky Rice if you like Craig Thompson. Also, I've heard good things about American Splendour, but I could be wrong, I haven't read it.
And Bone is a fantastic series (What?).
Surf the webernets to your heart's content on the subject of graphic comic novels. There are a lot of them out there, but I get the sense you might not be looking for the whole superhero bent, right? Check out Watchmen anyway, and, like some above me have said, any Alan Moore. He's the only person who has looked into superheroes memorably for me, after all, he's the only man to ever have won a Hugo for a comic. (Watchmen)

0bsessions:
In terms of the difference between comics and graphic novels:...there is none. Typically graphic novel is used by people who don't want to cop to the fact they're reading a medium that is typically looked down upon as childish by the mainstream.

Anyways, it sounds to me like you're looking for more finite material than anything serialized. As much as I absolutely lover Walking Dead, it's a book with no specific end in sight. If you love zombies, I wouldn't dare let that stop you, though. As a fan of the zombie horror genre, Walking Dead is simply the best zombie related story I have ever encountered (Much better than anything Romero's put out since Dawn of the Dead). While it's meandered from the overall zombie idea lately, it's a suspenseful and well conceived character piece.

Y the Last Man comes heavily recommended as well. It was mentioned briefly, but some additional details: It's a finite storyline with a beginning, middle and end. They're a few months away from the ending (I think there's maybe two issues left before it's done). It focuses on about three years in the life of Yorick, the sole surviving human male after a catastrophe kills every single organism with a Y chromosome except him and his monkey Ampersand.

If you don't mind the tights and flights genre, there's also some great reading out there. Kingdom Come was mentioned. That's a story of a future period when most of Earth's heroes have gone into retirement. It focuses on Superman's return and him attempting to build a new world order around the other heroes.

Rising Stars is a great work. It focuses on 112 people from Pederson, Illinois who were all born with superpowers due to an unexplained (Initially) phenomenon that occured while they were all in utero.

Anything that Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale collaborated on (Batman: The Long Halloween, Spider-Man: Blue, Daredevil: Yellow, etc) is worth checking out.

HPPH:
Will Eisner: if you've only read his Moby Dick, you really ought to read A Talk With God. That's an amazing book.

American Splendor may be of interest since it's a rotating artist dealing with one man's every day stories.

Here's one a little harder to find, My Brain Hurts is being collected. At $5, it's not a risky thing to try out. Romance and teenage angst in a coming of age story.

It's not collected (to my knowledge) but Action Girl has occassional Alison Bechdel stories and is an on again off again all women artist/writer anthology edited by Sarah Dyer.

Her husband, Evan Dorkin, also runs a great book,  Dork. It's being collected I believe.

Johnny C:

Ishotdanieljohnston:
All really great reccomendations. I'm relatively new to the medium myself- i've been reading them for about 2 years now and am quite addicted. In terms of them being taken seriously by accademic types; my source for just about every one i've read has been the uni library, they have thousands of them (meaning that i actualy own very few) but i think that the fact that such a considerable amount of mo ney would be spent making them available to students is a good indication tha they are recognised as a worthy form of literature. However, i don't think they should be studied. They weren't designed to be "taught", every element of them has been made wholly accessable to the reader, and i don't think there is much a proffessor could reveal about them.

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