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- The Best Graphic Novels of All TimeReading list
Spiegelman is writer, artist, and subject matter in this rightly-canonized Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel hailed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker). An autobiographical memoir that…
- Marie D’AbreoInterview
One would be Maus by Art Spiegelman. That was groundbreaking for me. Up until that point, I had no idea that a ‘comic’ could be more than an amusing tale, but a journey into someone’s personal and deeply moving world. I was riveted. Another would be Like A Velvet Glove Cast in Iron by Daniel Clowes, for its quirky…
- Matt MaddenInterview
Not really one book in particular but I often recommend comics and graphic novels to friends and family, from standards like Maus by Art Spiegelman or reprints of Krazy Kat by George Herriman to personal favorites like Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes or The Jew of New York by Ben Katchor (which my mom couldn’t get through…
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