100 Must-Read Graphic Memoirs - Page 3

"There's a scene in Locke and Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez where one character opens another's head and looks around–literally. That's what I imagine graphic memoirs doing. I can only live one life, but with their combination of prose and art, graphic memoirs let me see what life is like for someone else in a new, deeper way and on a range of topics and places of origin, from growing up in a country in revolution to living with mental illness to coping with tragic loss."