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Old 04-02-2018, 08:43 PM   #27047
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
I recently read "an actual book" and my first graphic work, also. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel was a recommendation from a niece who read it for a college class and a very worthy recommendation it was. Now I'm intrigued by the graphic medium for novels and will have to explore. I realize not being aware of the groundbreaking Fun Home whose author was a MacArthur genius shows what a fogey I am!
I've never really warmed to graphic novels - not those in the style I associate with comic books, not even when I really like the author otherwise (eg: Neil Gaiman). But I do have some of what I call "picture books" that I find fascinating, see this thread.

ETA: Shaun Tan, the author mentioned on that thread, wrote what I consider to be the equivalent of a novel in the same picture book style. It's called The Arrival. It is quite magical.
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