Best Non-Superhero Graphic Novels
Best Non-Superhero Graphic Novels When most people think of comics, they assume that it has to contain men flying around in brightly colored costumes. However, graphic novels encompass a large range of topics from the everyday monotony of the 9-5 to meta-physical explorations of the future. So here are my top 5 (with a few honorable mentions) Non-superhero Graphic Novels. MAUS by Art Spiegelman When I was in 8th grade, my history teacher offered extra credit for outside reading of history-based literature. Students were bringing in books from the American Girl series and athlete biographies to get approved. I brought in MAUS . She took one look at it and said, "That's a comic book, that doesn't count." My timid Jr. High self sheepishly put the novel back in my backpack and didn't say a word. What this uneducated dullard didn't know or consider is that MAUS won the friggin Pulitzer Prize. MAUS is hardly a comic book, but an epic, 300-page, bi