Top 5 Comics for Grand Theft Auto Fans

With Grand Theft Auto VI speeding toward its November 19, 2026 release, now is the perfect time to explore five crime comics that capture the chaos, corruption, dark humor, and morally questionable characters that have defined the legendary video game franchise. From botched heists and criminal conspiracies to gang wars and dangerous antiheroes, these comics should keep GTA fans occupied while they wait to return to Vice City. Rockstar Games currently confirms the November 19 release date for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Rockstar Games

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American Caper Volume 1: Red-Pilled Blues
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Creators: Dan Houser, writer and creator; Lazlow, additional writer; David Lapham and Chris Anderson, artists; Tyler Boss, cover artist

Created and written by Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser, with additional writing by longtime Rockstar collaborator Lazlow, American Caper carries unmistakable traces of the creative DNA behind Grand Theft Auto. The opening volume brings together a Mormon hitman, a gambling-addicted lawyer, a conspiracy-obsessed housewife, and members of a Mexican drug cartel in Verona, Wyoming.
Its rotating perspectives, exaggerated personalities, political commentary, criminal schemes, and biting portrayal of modern America make this the closest comic-book relative to GTA on the list. It feels like the player has switched between several unstable protagonists whose separate missions are about to collide in one spectacular disaster. Absurd Ventures

Criminal
Publisher: Originally Icon Comics; currently Image Comics
Creators: Ed Brubaker, writer and co-creator; Sean Phillips, artist and co-creator; Val Staples, Elizabeth Breitweiser, and Jacob Phillips, colorists across different stories

Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Criminal explores an interconnected world of thieves, killers, pickpockets, corrupt police officers, heist planners, and career criminals. Each storyline examines another corner of Center City’s underworld, where loyalty is temporary and even the most carefully planned job can collapse without warning.
The series resembles the more grounded side of Grand Theft Auto. Its elaborate scores, double-crosses, criminal families, getaway plans, and morally compromised protagonists could easily serve as GTA missions. It replaces some of the game’s outrageous satire with hard-boiled noir, but the basic rule remains the same: every lucrative opportunity comes with several people waiting to betray you. Image Comics

100 Bullets
Publisher: DC Comics under the Vertigo imprint
Creators: Brian Azzarello, writer and co-creator; Eduardo Risso, artist and co-creator; Patricia Mulvihill and Grant Goleash, colorists; Clem Robins, letterer; Dave Johnson, cover artist

100 Bullets begins with the mysterious Agent Graves approaching people who have been wronged. He provides each person with proof identifying who destroyed their life, along with an untraceable gun and 100 bullets. What initially appears to be a collection of revenge stories gradually expands into a massive conspiracy involving assassins, criminal organizations, powerful families, and a secret war for control.
Much like GTA, one seemingly simple assignment can uncover an entire criminal network. The competing factions, shifting alliances, revenge missions, gang conflicts, and increasingly dangerous stakes resemble the way a GTA protagonist rises from street-level trouble into a much larger underworld conspiracy. DC Comics

Stray Bullets
Publisher: Originally El Capitan Books; currently Image Comics
Creator: David Lapham, writer, artist, and creator

David Lapham’s Stray Bullets follows small-time criminals, killers, desperate families, reckless teenagers, and innocent bystanders whose lives become connected through violence and terrible decisions. Its nonlinear structure moves across different characters and decades, revealing how one impulsive criminal act can create consequences that last for years.
The comic captures the unpredictable sandbox energy of Grand Theft Auto. Minor arguments escalate into shootouts, inexperienced criminals attempt ridiculous schemes, and ordinary people suddenly find themselves trapped in someone else’s chaos. Its combination of brutal violence, absurd situations, memorable lowlifes, and extremely bad decision-making makes it feel like a GTA side mission that went completely off the rails. Image Comics

Scalped
Publisher: DC Comics under the Vertigo imprint
Creators: Jason Aaron, writer and co-creator; R.M. Guéra, primary artist and co-creator; Davide Furnò, Igor Kordey, Francesco Francavilla, and Danijel Žeželj, contributing artists; Jock, primary cover artist

Scalped centers on Dashiell Bad Horse, an undercover FBI agent who returns to the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation to infiltrate the criminal organization controlled by tribal leader Lincoln Red Crow. Bad Horse must navigate illegal gambling, drug trafficking, murder, federal investigations, tribal politics, and unresolved connections to the community he abandoned.
Its GTA similarities come from the classic criminal-undercover narrative. Bad Horse operates between law enforcement and the underworld while taking assignments, managing rival factions, entering hostile territory, and questioning where his loyalty truly belongs. The reservation functions like a tightly controlled GTA map where nearly every character has an agenda, every neighborhood has a history, and every mission pulls the protagonist deeper into the criminal empire he is supposed to destroy. DC Comics

-Jay Katz

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