Ten of Australia's best literary comics
- Written by Gabriel Clark, Lecturer, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney
Tommi Parissh's The Lie and How We Told It is one of a crop of new Australian comics appealing to adult audiences.
With news that the Man Booker Prize long list includes a graphic novel for the first time, the spotlight is on comics as a literary form. That’s a welcome development; the comic is one of the oldest kinds of storytelling we have...

