![]() There are big, life-changing experiences happening on the page, and it’s even a little transformative for the reader, I think, to go through that journey with the characters.Īnother thing I’ve been noticing about graphic novels, and TenNapel’s in particular, is the way that I am totally willing to buy in to whatever outlandish premise they ask me to accept. A large suburban house into a cardboard kingdom. A spiteful neighbor kid into a loyal friend. Turning a beloved dog into a friendly dinosaur. He seems to kind of delight in taking a thing or person and making it bigger, better, different. You guys, they’re so much fun! One theme that I’ve latched on to in TenNapel’s work is the idea of transformation. I read Ghostopolis earlier in the year, and tore through Tommysaurus Rex and Cardboard in the past few days. Those things just won’t stay on the shelves! Graphic novels are a genre that I don’t have much experience with or knowledge about, but when several friends recommended TenNapel’s books to me, I thought it was high time I dove in and saw what all the fuss was about. ![]() If I was in charge of collection development for my local library system, I’d be considering ordering 2-3 more copies of every graphic novel by Doug TenNapel, since earlier this year it took me two months to get my hands on even one copy for a graduate school assignment. ![]()
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