Whenever I see or hear someone “justifying” reading a graphic novel or putting them down, it makes me sad. Graphic novels are books. It is reading. There just happens to be an added visual component to them. People learn and process language in different ways, and to disparage any form of reading is just gross. If a graphic novel version of a story captures a person’s attention and has them reading, great! If the graphic novel version helps them to better understand the original text or helps them process the story, awesome! Classics have sometimes gotten a bad rap — I’ve had friends say they find them boring or they’re hard to get into. A well-done graphic novel can completely change that. Here are some classics that I would love to see as graphic novels. I’ve done my best to research whether or not they have been made into graphic novels at all, and I did not find any version for these. If you’re interested in reading more about classics and graphic novels, check out this post about introducing classics via graphic novels, and this post about some of the best graphic novel adaptations of classics.
