Since 2021 was no exception, let this list serve as a gateway drug to just a few of the best graphic novels of 2021.Ĭrisis Zone by Simon Hanselmann (Fantagraphics) Simon Hanselmann's Crisis Zone collects a year's worth of webcomics in his Megg, Mogg and Owl series, which were originally released on Instagram for free during the pandemic year. If the phrase rings odd to modern ears, it’s because graphic literature long ago surpassed the realm of mere literary appetiser, and is now a meal unto itself, a humming, thriving feast of drama, suspense and beauty that rivals any art put out most years. Of course, due in no small part to the work done by Spiegelman and his contemporaries, no such defence is necessary today.
At the time, this was intended to defend the art form from the charge of childish unseriousness, to hint at the richness and beauty of its best adherents.
“Comics” the great American cartoonist Art Spiegelman once wrote, “are a gateway drug to literacy”.
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