Comics and graphic novels are one of the best ways to transport yourself while reading. Artists use style and detailed flourishes to show their readers both the familiar and the strange. When it comes to fish-out-of-water graphic novels, artists utilize these elements to strike the balance of explaining what the perspective character knows and showing what is totally new to them.
These graphic novels and memoirs take different forms, from slice-of-life stories to themed vignettes. Travelogues are especially popular in the comics and graphic novel form because they’re usually the natural extension of artists’ drawing journals. You can better understand what these characters find strange by literally seeing it through their eyes in comics panel form. I hope these comic stories are as exciting for all readers to explore as they are for the protagonists to experience.
Graphic Novels
 Tall Water by S.J. Sindu, illustrated by Dion MBDThis graphic novel melds a bit of magical thinking with a real-world disaster in Sri Lanka. Nimmi has a loving father, but she wants to reconnect with her mother, who still lives in Sri Lanka. Nimmi defies his wishes and travels to find her anyway, but while there, the 2004 tsunami hits. She doesn’t know the landscape very well, and she also has to navigate a natural disaster. |
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