Happy Birthday, Art Spiegelman
On this date in 1948. On the off-chance you don't know, he's the man who gave legitimacy to our beloved graphic-novel form with Maus, his incredible work about his father's experience in Auchwitz.
If you had to pick one graphic novel to take with you to a desert island... well, you couldn't do it. Neither could I. Try five. I think mine would be Maus, Watchmen, Elf*Quest (but only if I could bind all twenty issues), Mage, and Cerebus: High Society... but I can hear The Dark Knight Returns, the full run of Sandman, The Girl Genius Omnibus, Kingdom Come, Mythadventures, and The League of Extraordinary Gentleman scratching at the door....
If you had to pick one graphic novel to take with you to a desert island... well, you couldn't do it. Neither could I. Try five. I think mine would be Maus, Watchmen, Elf*Quest (but only if I could bind all twenty issues), Mage, and Cerebus: High Society... but I can hear The Dark Knight Returns, the full run of Sandman, The Girl Genius Omnibus, Kingdom Come, Mythadventures, and The League of Extraordinary Gentleman scratching at the door....