By Dan Brown

The holidays are looming, and you’ve been racking your brains for ideas of what gifts to get your family and friends, but coming up short.
Well, you’ve come to the right place.
We are now at the point where there is a graphic novel for everyone on your list, so please consider the following suggestions as you do your Christmas shopping.
For your husband/boyfriend: Any Tintin adventure by Herge
For your wife/girlfriend: Jillian Tamaki’s Super Mutant Magic Academy
For your dad: Giant by Mikael
For your mom: Any collection of Peanuts comic strips by Charles Schulz
For your brother: Essex County by Jeff Lemire
For your sister: Jonathan Dyck’s Shelterbelts
For your young son: Any Geronimo Stilton graphic novel by Elisabetta Dami
For your young daughter: The Bad Guys Book 1 by Aaron Blabey
For your best friend: Petals by Gustavo Borges
For the Marvel fan in your life: Origins of Marvel Comics (the 2024 Deluxe Edition)
For the DC fan: Irredeemable by Mark Waid, Peter Krause and Diego Barreto
For the person in your life who loves superhero movies: Robot Dreams by Sara Varon
For the person who hates superhero movies: Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
For the music fan in your life: Leonard Cohen: On a Wire by Philippe Girard
For the history buff in your life: Fax From Sarajevo by Joe Kubert
For the hockey fan in your life: Essex County by Jeff Lemire
For the journalist in your life: Ten Days in a Mad-House: A Graphic Adaptation by Brad Ricca
For the photographer in your life: Weegee from Wauter Mannaert and Max de Radigues
For the comics historian in your life: Brian Doherty’s Dirty Pictures (it’s prose)
For the lover of newspaper cartoons: Joe Ollmann’s Fictional Father
For the fan of CanCon: Are You Willing to Die for the Cause? by Chris Oliveros
For the grad student in your life: Any of the Wendy titles from Walter Scott
For the theatre lover: Kill Shakespeare by Conor McCreery, Anthony Del Col and Andy Belanger
For the lover of literature: Slaughterhouse-Five: The Graphic Novel adapted by Ryan North and Albert Monteys
For the fan of the 1970s: Mimi Pond’s Over Easy
For the fan of the 1980s: Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos and Me by Lorina Mapa
For the fan of AI: The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
For the deep thinker in your life: Leslie Stein’s I Know You Rider
For the Muppet fan in your life: A Tale of Sand from Jim Henson and Ramon Perez
For the comics newbie: Either The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller) Watchmen (Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons) or The Complete Maus (Art Spiegelman)
For just about everyone: Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss
If you have any of your own gift suggestions, I’d love to hear them in the comment box below!

Alternatively, what titles are you asking Santa Claus to leave under your tree?

Dan Brown has covered pop culture for more than 32 years as a journalist and also moderates L.A. Mood’s monthly graphic-novel group.