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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35. Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned by Judd Winick (2000)

To many people, the first that they heard about Judd Winick was when he was on the popular MTV reality show, The Real World, specifically one of the most iconic seasons of the show, in Season 3 (the San Francisco one). While there, Winick met both his future wife and a close friend, Pedro Zamora, an HIV Positive Safe Sex advocate.

Winick then turned the lessons that he learned about, well, friendship and loss, into a compelling graphic novel.

What's amazing about the book is how much Winick was able to work humor into what could have been a very depressing story.

34. This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki (2014)

Cousins Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki collaborated on this graphic novel about two pre-teen girls who meet up every summer when their families rent cabins together. The main character, Rose, is slightly older than her friend, Windy, and thus Rose is at a different point in her life and thus they slowly grow apart. Meanwhile, though, Rose learns some more about her family.

Here, we just see the everyday life of the families in a great piece of sequential storytelling by Jillian Tamaki...

Beautiful stuff.

33. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (2006)

American Born Chinese is a brilliant story that intermixes three different tales that shockingly manage to come together. The first story is about the Monkey King, a famous character from the 16th Century Chinese novel, Journey to the West. The third story is a riff on the way that Asian characters were depicted in old pop culture stories and the second story is a coming of age story of a second generation Chinese kid...

The way that Luen Yang manages to intermix the three tales is outstanding.

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32. The Sculptor by Scott McCloud (2015)

The Sculptor is a striking graphic novel about a young man named David Smith (no, the "other David Smith") who makes a deal with Death where the young man gains the ability to sculpt anything that he can think of in exchange for only having 200 days left to live. The thing is that he also meets a young woman during the process and she takes a great role in his life while his time ticks down.

McCloud's depiction of the creation of art is magnificent...

As you can see, "Harry" (Death in his disguise) points out the folly of David's choice in life, but is it really folly? It's a beautiful story.

31. Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon (2006)

During the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, there was a bombing at a zoo that led to four lions being released from the zoo. Writer Brian K. Vaughan decided to turn that odd story into a beautiful tale of what life was like for those four lions.

It's amazing how much character work that Henrichon can do with LIONS, for crying out loud, people!