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Is no place safe from comics? Authors David Baldacci (Absolute Power) and Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) appeared on The Today Show to pick 10 holiday books and one of those Flynn picked was the graphic novel Sailor Twain by Mark Siegel. Flynn called it ”Steamboats, romance, and mythology, and a search for love universally – it’s really a haunting book.”
The Sailor Twain reference is at about 2:12 in the above video.
The Year of Graphic Novel Mainstream Promotion is definitely going out with a bang.
Heidi MacDonald is the founder and editor in chief of The Beat. In the past, she worked for Disney, DC Comics, Fox and Publishers Weekly. She can be heard regularly on the More To Come Podcast. She likes coffee, cats and noble struggle.
“Graphic novel… interesting and important art form”
It is great to see other people beginning to recognize this.
Remember when we were overjoyed when ONE graphic novel made the year-end lists, and it was the same book?
Remember when only the comics media made graphinc-novel-specific “Best Of” lists?
Sailor Twain, Building Stories, Are You My Mother?…