The 6 Best Graphic Novelists
Six leading graphic novelists choose their favorite peer, from Peter Kuper on Robert Crumb to Posy Simmonds on Jacques Tardi. At left is a detail from Joe Sacco‘s “Palestine.” Of Sacco, Bryan Talbot says: ‘Comics have many superficial similarities to film – the use of long shots, closeup, zooms and pans, for example – but, filtered through the perception and artistry of their authors, they are much closer to prose in the way they transmit a personal vision…Sacco is a master of this medium.’
