Is A Picture Worth A Thousand Words? Black Hole by Charles Burns (2005) and Fun Home By Alison Bechdel (2006)
Is a picture worth a thousand words? Sometimes. To be honest, I’ve never been a big fan of graphic novels, considering them to be more expensive and lengthier cousins of comic books. I did enjoy Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and its sequels. Satrapi’s illustrations hammered the human toll of the Shah’s overthrow in Iran. However, I […]