Go, Read: Audrey Nifenegger’s Book List

One of the big ideas that will work its way through comics over the next 18-24 months is what Dan Nadel might call seeing comics in the wider context of visual narratives or visual literature, and what I would call claiming for comics what is comics, or seeing as comics all works that can be read that way. As part of some new Amazon.com program driven by lists made by notable authors, Audrey Nifenegger lists a few comics in the context of a visual narratives list, many of which as described sound sort of like comics to me.

1. The Depository: A Dream Book by Andrzej Klimowski
2. Salome by Oscar Wilde, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley
3. Maus by Art Spiegelman
4. A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil by Max Ernst
5. Moby Dick by Herman Melville, illustrated by Rockwell Kent
6. Gods' Man by Lynd Ward
7. Life? Or Theatre? by Charlotte Salomon
8. Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay
9. Jimmy Corrigan, Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
10. The Glove by Max Klinger (above)

Further proof that the borders will be blurred in the months ahead: Jordan Crane's new comic is reviewed alongside more traditional children's literature.
 
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