Articles on Graphic novels
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With his colleague René Goscinny, Uderzo told the story of the Gaulish nation.
Some graphic novels can spur teens’ engagement with social justice issues.
Charlotte Salomon’s dizzying work of hope and creativity amid destruction and despair, is a moving early example of the contemporary graphic novel
A UN aid worker turned his experiences in war-torn Sri Lanka into a graphic novel.
Tintin’s adventures aren’t just fun to read – you can pick up a lot of history as well.
Some AI technologies aren’t advanced enough to provide useful insights, but simpler tools can yield new opportunities to explore the humanities.
A series of recent comics are trying to shift the narrative about refugees.
Australian comic producers punch above their weight globally – many have been picked up by international publishers yet remain little known at home. Here are 10 of the best.
Graphic novels have a long history and are becoming an ever-more popular way of bringing profound and complex stories to life.
Why this art form is rather more than just biff, bang pow.
She started life as a bit-part sidekick to The Joker but is now a multi-platform anti-hero.
In the French graphic-novel series La Présidente, François Durpaire, Laurent Muller and Farid Boudjellal imagine what might happen if Marine Le Pen wins the presidential election.
Superheroes are either men, or women drawn by men. Couldn’t there be another way of creating a 21st century superheroine?
It’s the 100th anniversary of the birth of graphic novel pioneer Will Eisner.
The graphic novel has become a literary phenomenon, but the name doesn’t adequately describe the medium’s flexibility, diversity and potential.
They allow us to explore buried emotions.
As soon as the teaching term finished, I went into the bookshop to buy some holiday reading. I came away with three books: no tomes these. They were all graphic novels. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s classic…
Medicine is a visual discipline and so it is perhaps unsurprising that comics about illness and its treatment are increasingly popular. Comic art is creating new ways of seeing illness. Images of disease…
This week, two very different Australian comics about asylum seekers have received widespread attention. The first is At work inside our detention centres: A guard’s story by Melbourne comics artist Sam…
The immigration department has added new contemporary imagery to the growing list of iconic works that surround the vexed issue of asylum seekers. Most Australians can already vividly recall media of the…



















