This looks like an interesting list, and I'm probably going to read a few of these. Rare Flavours in particular sounds right up my alley.

It can be hard to tell with the newer graphic novels which ones are more fun than being a work of serious literary fiction to elevate the medium, i.e. often they tend to be downers, at least for a good chunk of the story.

I do like the more serious ones myself, but my partner has a birthday coming up, she loves graphic novels, but she's much more into fun, escapist (but with interesting/strong characters) stories at the moment since her job's been pretty stressful. Does anyone have recommendations for those? This list doesn't seem like it has too many that would fit that.

I got her Nimona for Christmas, after we saw (and loved) the film adaptation for the first one on Netflix, for example.