In a society where we value the educated class, by giving those with better degrees higher salaries and more credibility, we are often too quick to sneer at the underappreciated gem that fuses art and literature, graphic novels. In our society we are taught to esteem ourselves on things like our grades, reading levels, advanced vocabularies, and overall intellect. We are told to read the classics and books that are on par with this standard, leaving comics and graphic novels to waste away with the picture books of our childhoods. After all, that’s all they are right? Picture books? Far too simplistic and remedial to have any real substance, right? Wrong.
Day: October 3, 2022
MY SUNSHINE
What if my sun seized to shine? What if my world turned dark without the light, The light your smile brings into my world? The light I need to keep my heart full. But if the light never comes, what would I be? I’d look in the mirror, my disguise falling clean. You’d see who […]
