Reading Illustrated Novels

[slayground]

On the day when this post was originally published, we shared artwork by Keith Thompson at the readergirlz blog. Thompson illustrated (among other things) the novel Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, the March 2010 readergirlz book pick.

Scott Westerfeld then asked, "How is reading an illustrated book different from reading one without pictures?"I

Comments

[rockinlibrarian]

I always felt the same way about that line-- it's a brilliant first line, but I don't quite agree with it. I've since decided that my opinion on the matter is: I prefer my nonfiction with pictures, I prefer my fiction with conversations, but they're not so necessary the other way around!

I've recently realized that I'm not very good at reading graphic novels. Somebody else's pictures don't tell as good a story to me as my own mental pictures do!

[slayground]

Exactly! :)

[slayground]

Postscript: Would you like me to recommend my favorite graphic novels to you, to see if you're interested? I am very particular.