The Third Something

154 / This Is Everything

What’s the best comic I’ve ever read?

What’s the best comic you’ve ever read?

Erin, Madrid, Spain

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Dear Erin,

I could give you a really long answer to this question, listing all the epic, expansive graphic novels that build incredible worlds, spin high octane plots with complex characters; stories that I return to again and again.

I could wax lyrical about how sequential art, in the hands of a master craftsperson, is capable of illuminating the biggest mysteries of love, life and the universe; how the medium deserves its place as one of the great arts.

I could rave about the epics: Maus, Alone In Space, Berlin, Palestine and Il Etait Une Fois En France.

But this scrappy four-panel comic by Lynda Barry, tucked away on the back cover of her book Making Comics…well Erin, it is everything.

A four panel comic by Lynda Barry showing two characters looking at a painting and seeing themselves.

© Lynda Barry

Until another Sunday soon,

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