The Hobbit
Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit of settled habits, is talked into joining thirteen dwarves on a quest to steal back their treasure from a dragon, and comes home a rather different hobbit.
Start with The Hobbit Graphic Novel
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Novels adapted into comics
From Tolkien to Octavia Butler, these are authorised comics versions of SF and fantasy novels, several of them better than you'd dare hope. Each links to the author's page in the Geek's Genre Guide, in case the comic sends you back to the book, which is roughly the opposite of what worried teachers predicted in 1954.
Neverwhere
Richard Mayhew is an ordinary young man in London who stops to help a girl bleeding on the pavement, and as a result falls through the cracks of the city into London Below, a hidden world…
Start with Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
Coraline
Coraline has just moved into a new flat, and she is bored.
Start with Coraline: The Graphic Novel
The Stand
A weaponised flu escapes from a military laboratory and kills almost everyone on Earth.
Start with The Stand: Captain Trips
Fahrenheit 451
Guy Montag is a fireman in a future America where firemen do not put out fires; they start them, burning books and the houses that contain them.
Start with Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Rick Deckard hunts escaped androids in a San Francisco half-emptied by nuclear war, and what he really wants is a real animal to replace his electric sheep.
Start with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Omnibus
The Martian Chronicles
Bradbury's linked stories follow the human colonisation of Mars, from the first expeditions, which do not go well for anyone, to the settlers, the ghost towns and the fate of Earth itself.
Start with Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles: The Authorized Adaptation
A Wrinkle in Time
Meg Murry's father, a scientist, has vanished while working on a secret project.
Start with A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel
The Graveyard Book
When a man called Jack murders his family, a toddler escapes to the local graveyard, where the ghosts take him in, name him Nobody Owens and raise him as one of their own.
Start with The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel, Volume 1
Kindred
In 1976, Dana, a Black writer in Los Angeles, is suddenly pulled back in time to a plantation in early nineteenth-century Maryland, where she saves a drowning white boy.
Start with Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
American Gods
Shadow Moon gets out of prison to learn that his wife has been killed, and he is almost immediately hired as a bodyguard by a con man called Mr Wednesday, who is rather older, and rather…
Start with American Gods, Volume 1: Shadows
Dune: The Graphic Novel
Paul Atreides moves with his family to the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the spice that makes space travel possible, and discovers that his family has walked into a trap, that…
Start with Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1
Parable of the Sower
In 2024, America is falling apart through climate change, economic collapse and violence, and Lauren Olamina, a teenage girl with a condition that makes her feel other people's pain, lives…
Start with Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation