Intrigued by your GN enthusiasm, plus the reference to graphic memoirs. What are your top five GM's? Or even just five you think I should read? I ask as a new enthusiast for the format, having written and illustrated a graphic memoir, and hearing enthusiastic words from a dozen agents who weren't sure they could sell it. I feel like I'm plowing a field that doesn't exist.
So many good ones out there… I’ve been on a total reading binge - Persepolis (Trapani) and Maus (Spiegelman) are contemporary classics, Look Again (Trembley) is a fascinating look at memory and trauma (watch for a review in the Substack in the near future) - right now I’m reading Pyonyang: A Journey Into North Korea by Guy Delisle… Fun Home by Alison Bechdel is great… I’ll dig back through the archives and find a link to a post I did a while back that talked about another one or two that I’d enjoyed…
Intrigued by your GN enthusiasm, plus the reference to graphic memoirs. What are your top five GM's? Or even just five you think I should read? I ask as a new enthusiast for the format, having written and illustrated a graphic memoir, and hearing enthusiastic words from a dozen agents who weren't sure they could sell it. I feel like I'm plowing a field that doesn't exist.
https://open.substack.com/pub/nikkitate/p/when-research-is-fun?r=uuz0&utm_medium=ios Here you go - another post with a few more suggestions
So many good ones out there… I’ve been on a total reading binge - Persepolis (Trapani) and Maus (Spiegelman) are contemporary classics, Look Again (Trembley) is a fascinating look at memory and trauma (watch for a review in the Substack in the near future) - right now I’m reading Pyonyang: A Journey Into North Korea by Guy Delisle… Fun Home by Alison Bechdel is great… I’ll dig back through the archives and find a link to a post I did a while back that talked about another one or two that I’d enjoyed…