Librarian Ginny

This might not be a huge surprise, but every graphic novel is unique. Different authors mean different storylines, narratives, and writing styles. Different artists mean varying styles and strokes. This seems really obvious, but I never thought of just how much it matters when reading a comic book. When I first started reading comic books, it took me forever to read because I had to adapt the way I read to include both text and graphics. But I’m realizing more and more that even if I read comic books exclusively, it would take me time to adapt from one comic book to the next just because of the varying styles of art and presentation of text. In many ways, I think that’s why I find it easier to read novels. I still have to get in the groove of any particular author, but the text-base is familiar and there’s less of a “learning curve”.

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