Graphic novel fan, Dean Delgado shares his top picks

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Diane Huang

Upper School dean Max Delgado poses with the book “The Contract with God Trilogy” by Will Eisner. “Eisner is an “incredible visual storyteller.” Delgado said.

Chief Visual Editor Diane Huang sat down with the new Upper School Dean, Max Delgado to find out his recommendations for graphic novels.

1. “The Sandman Series” by Neil Gaiman

From the author of American Gods and Stardust (among many other titles), The Sandman Series is a highly acclaimed graphic novel series that explores the “whole course of…the human experience.”

2. “Super Spy” by Matt Kindt

A collection of spy stories, Super Spy is written with a “kind of creative, strange, talent.”

3, “The Contract with God Trilogy” by Will Eisner

The Contract with God by Will Eisner is said to be the first graphic novel. To Delgado, Eisner is an “incredible visual storyteller.”

4. “Part 1 of The Dark Knight Returns” by Frank Miller

Written around the same time as Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns “turned [Batman] from something campy to something darker.”

5. “The Boondocks” by Aaron McGruder

The Boondocks “started a serious political dialogue [in graphic novels]” and “added a rich perspective to the funny pages” when it first came out.

6. “Vietnamerica” by Giao Bao Tran

A true story of a Vietnamese-American family, Vietnamerica is a perfect example of “when history and graphic novels collide.”

7. “Maus” by Art Spiegelman

Maus “was a big gamechanger for graphic novels” through its storytelling. Besides the obvious—being about the Holocaust—Maus is a “story about father and son relationships.”

8. “Embroideries” by Marjane Satrapi

“Comics can sometimes get oversaturated with explosions and fist fights. [Embroideries] cracks open the genre.”