![]() Obviously, this can also be the case with any works of literature or indeed non-fiction, but the use of image and drawing helps to provide authenticity and credibility to the stories presented. The use of images and drawings helps to guide and focus the reader’s imagination, in a way that other novels possibly don’t we see worlds and places and times framed through the eyes of the author and/or illustrator, we can choose to picture ourselves immersed in these worlds, or simply be voyeurs looking in. The sheer variety of stories told, and the methods and aesthetic style in which these stories are told, make it one of the broadest genres in all of literature. What a graphic novel is not, is just a simple comic. ![]() It could be part of a cannon, such any given book within the child-friendly The Adventures of Tintin or Asterix series, or it can be a standalone piece of high-art, such as Art Spiegelman’s Maus, a vivid retelling of his own father’s experiences of the Holocaust, with mice representing Jews, and cats for Germans. It can be autobiographical, as is the case with Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, it can be a piece of journalistic insight, such as Joe Sacco’s Palestine or The Fixer, an account of the Bosnian war. ![]()
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