Alison Bechdel

Can a graphic novel be more expansive than a traditional novel? Is it possible for a book that probably has one word for every fifty that a conventional novel has, to be able to express more discursively than the latter? Fun Home proves…

I like big literary books and I cannot lie that they’ve always been devoid of any illustrations and speech bubbles. Give me some Orhan Pamuk, speckle my collection with Ishiguro and throw in a Sally Rooney novel for good measure, and hey, …