Literary judges, publishers, librarians, teachers, academics and the reading public are all becoming more aware of the form. Indeed, Ahmed’s shortlistings in both adult and children’s categories demonstrates the crossover appeal of comics. biology: 3 reasons comic books are great science teachers This phrase has been a regular mainstay of comics criticism, managing to insult comics and children at the same time by suggesting anything colourful or using a visual, illustrative mode was “for children” and therefore not worthy of critical attention. And the once ubiquitous headlines about comics being no longer just for kids are nowhere in sight. These mainstream shortlistings and prizes show that books using the visual-verbal strategies of graphic narrative are being recognised alongside traditional prose novels and narrative non-fiction. Safdar Ahmed won the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Book of the Year and the Multicultural NSW Award for his graphic narrative non-fiction, Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s Immigration Detention System Ahmed has also been shortlisted for the Eve Pownall Award, the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s award for non-fiction. In 2022, Stone Fruit by Lee Lai was the first graphic novel shortlisted for the Stella Prize, after Mandy Ord’s When One Person Dies the Whole World is Over made the longlist in 2020. They are receiving critical attention too. Australian readers purchased more than a million graphic novels across 25,000 unique titles during 2020, generating A$23.1 million in sales. Graphic narratives are a growth area in mainstream book publishing. (The first was Two Week Wait: An IVF Story, written by Luke and Kelly Jackson and illustrated by Mara Wild.) Grills’ deeply personal exploration of self is Affirm’s first foray into the world of adult graphic narrative. Wallman’s journalistic examination of unionism through comics is Scribe’s second extended graphic narrative. Affirm and Scribe have established themselves as notable small publishers in Australia, holding their own on the Australian literary award circuit.
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