![]() The surge in the popularity of graphic novels since followed this phenomenon of using the visual medium to tell stories with immense nuances and dynamics. It set a global precedent in its transformation of the comic book format, adding length and complexity wound in a memoir-cum-political commentary on the history of the Holocaust. It was in 1992 when Spiegelman’s Maus became the first ever graphic novel to win a Pulitzer. ( Announcement: Bookish Santa has organized a massive books by weight sale in Guwahati from 12th May to 21st May, 2023. ![]() Think of political cartoons or photographs from protests and wars or even the Symbolist works of art. The use of images as metaphors or as rhetoric or an expression of emotional experiences has been age-old. ![]()
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