You voted and now we continue our countdown of your votes for the top original graphic novels of all-time! These are graphic novels that were not serialized as comic books before they were released as graphic novels.

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25. Stitches: A Memoir (2009)

David Small was an award-winning children's book illustrator when he revealed his backstory in the beautiful but haunting Stitches.

Small was a sickly child and that's when he first got interested in art, since he had a lot of time to himself to practice. His father was a radiologist and began to treat David with the practices of the early 1950s, which meant lots and lots of radiation from X-rays and the like until David developed a tumor on his neck which, when removed, took one of his vocal cords with it.

Small perfectly encapsulated his tragic life growing up with his family...

The artwork is gorgeous.

24. Fax From Sarajevo (1996)

Joe Kubert was one of the most famous war comic artists in the history of comic books, but he gave us a whole new look on war with Fax From Sarajevo, which is based on the real life story of a business associate of Kubert's in Europe, who Kubert had never met in person, began faxing Kubert tales from the terrible Bosnian War, including the awful genocidal acts that happened to the citizens there.

Kubert took those faxes and created a topical graphic novel..

Kubert was a masterful storyteller and he brought Ervin Rustemagić's awful story to the masses.

23. The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch (1994)

This stunning graphic novel by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean takes place at a seaside town where the narrator recollects his childhood and all of the strange events that befell him one summer, in particular, including the frequent encounters with the "Punch and Judy" man, who shares the popular story of the puppets, Punch and Judy, which is a tragic tale that might have some connection to the lives of all involved...

It's a dark, fascinating tale.

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22. Here (2014)

This one is a bit tricky, in that Richard McGuire originally debuted the concept behind Here as a six-page comic book story in an issue of Raw in 1989. Decades later, he took that idea and then made it as a graphic novel. I don't think that that disqualifies this book from being considered an original graphic novel, though. It's the CONCEPT that is being used again, not the actual original comic book pages.

Anyhow, the idea of the comic is a breathtaking idea - just draw one single spot, throughout time itself. Pick a corner of a room and just depict that same spot at different points in time. Sometime there was no house there. Sometimes there were people in the room, other times no one. McGuire also mixes in the time periods so that you have a scene from 1970 in one part of the room and 1940 in another part of the room. Stuff like that.

That's a really clever idea, right?

21. Gotham By Gaslight (1989)

This is the graphic novel that launched the concept of Elseworlds at DC Comics. Written by Brian Augustyn with art by Mike Mignola and P. Craig Russell, it takes the idea of Batman and his various cast members and translates them to the time period of the late 19th Century.

As you might imagine, this sort of thing is right in the middle of Mignola's wheelhouse and he depicts this Victorian era Batman design beautifully...

Of course, this being 1889, you can't NOT work Jack the Ripper into the story and Augustyn is no fool. He has the Ripper come to Gotham and the people of Gotham believe that Batman must be the Ripper. It's a ripping yarn that inspired a whole imprint at DC Comics!