27), a new memoir by athlete/activist Tommie Smith, written with Derrick Barnes and illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice (Norton Young Readers, Sept. Has there ever been such a varied profusion of long-form comics for all ages, both fiction and nonfiction, published by presses large and small? The days when fans had to make a case for the graphic novel as a valid form of literature are long past a book like Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina can now be longlisted for the ultraprestigious Booker Prize, while graphic works for young readers are regularly nominated for the National Book Award, as was Victory. I’d submit that we are also in a golden age of the graphic novel, though it is perhaps less universally (and loudly) recognized. It’s often said, with great fanfare, that we are living in the golden age of television.
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