I’m much more concerned that with all of the brilliant writers and artists producing edgy, beautiful, startling, uncompromising and visionary work every day, I’m doomed to be hopelessly behind or maybe even out of touch. Having read Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, Alan Moore’s Watchmen and V for Vendetta, as well as Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, I have no such prejudices. That event seemed to confirm the fact that graphic novels were still outsidersand would never be considered serious literature. I also remember the disappointment and frustration when Essex County was the first book voted off Canada Reads. First, there was my son, a comic book aficionado who had read it when he was still an English Lit student and loved it and then there was the excitement that surrounded its selection as a finalist in the 2011 Canada Reads competition. It’s odd that I waited this long because it came so highly recommended. I sat down to read Jeff Lemire’s multiple prize-winning graphic novel, Essex County, earlier this week, at long last.
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