"Let's hear it for the comic book"

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Tom Spurgeon gives a compelling rebuttal to the convetional wisdom that graphic novels are better than single issues:

"So what is it I'm reacting to? My best guess is that there must be something about meeting an artist working at their most immediate that's exciting in a way that's nearly impossible to experience in other art forms. The only thing that comes close may be following a play through workshops and into its final, published form, but not many of us get a chance to do that. Should comics be so quick to throw that away just because some of them work well under one volume?"

Read the whole essay here.