Shaun Tan’s groundbreaking graphic story, The Arrival, counters the dangerous fantasy of a homogeneous (white) Australia – and invites us to inhabit the other.
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Comic-art makers and avid readers agree: if the great Australian graphic novel exists, what makes it great just might surprise you.
First published in 2000, Persepolis created a transformative shift in comics, memoir and political storytelling. Its Iranian–French creator has died, aged 56.
This is Lee Lai’s second book to be shortlisted for the Stella Prize, and her first win.
A common question goes something like: how do I get my child to read something other than comics or graphic novels? But the answer might be: you don’t have to.
Two graphic novel biographies of Jane Austen offer alternate, but equally rewarding, ways of recounting her life’s work in fascinating visual styles.
These 5 books explore Iran’s Islamic Revolution through religion, politics, mythology and personal experience – and take you inside its prisons.
We’ve had Jane Austen biopics, biographies, screen adaptations galore. Now, her life story is told graphically, with both invented dialogue and glossary of sources.
Refugee comics disrupt a media landscape that tends to reduce migrants to either threats or victims.
The Interpreters is a new anthology of creative nonfiction that opens an intriguing window on South Africa.
Graphic novels are well-placed to bring forgotten history to life.
Zemeckis mostly removes the playful multiplicity of overlaying moments in time that make the comic so unique.
Your perfect summer read might be a paperback romance or crime book, a fat biography, or that classic you always meant to read. Our avid readers picked a wide range of books.
Moving through Thomas’s experiences of her body, we increasingly see how fatphobia shapes her life.
Australian readers are hungry for graphic novels, but, due to a skills shortage, few are published locally. Three very different new books feed our growing appetite for the form.
The wacky and weird hyper-violent series is coming to a close but there is so much more to fill the gap it leaves.
Australia has a long history of book banning organised by Christian associations and churches. A federal court appeal attempt to ban graphic memoir Gender Queer is still to be considered this year.
Webcomics are functioning as emotional outlets for artists, as well as intentional acts of solidarity and resistance against Israel’s military offensive in Gaza.
Heartstopper is a celebration of ‘queer joy’ that uses the imaginative intimacy of graphic novels to invite the reader into its tight-knit world.
Though they’re sometimes characterized as attention-addled homebodies, younger people see a real value in libraries − one that goes beyond books.
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Senior Lecturer, Literary Studies and Creative Writing, Monash University
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Reader in English, City St George's, University of London
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Lecturer and PhD Candidate in Comics and Architecture, University of Brighton
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Associate Professor, Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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