Favorite non-superhero comic?

Favorite non-superhero comic?
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answer:Jhonen Vasquez is one awesomely twisted fellow :) Sandman is my favourite series (the combining of mythologies is particularly fascinating to me.) Calvin and Hobbes is my favourite strip (... and one of my favourite works of literature, hence The Plan for my graduate thesis.) Persepolis was a pretty fantastic, not to mention touching, graphic novel.
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