When people think of comics, and by extension graphic novels, they think of men in tights swinging from buildings on homemade webs. Superhero comics are included on the list, but so are works of historical fiction and magical realism on par with the novels of Madison Smart Bell and Gloria Naylor. The authors and artists below cover the epic of the Diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean and the United States in inventive and imaginative ways. READ MORE
