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Choices portrayed in Sequential Arts

...... To an industry whose mainstay was the exploits of glamorous superheroes - in other words, escapism - it was an untouchable curiosity
Eventually released by a small independent publisher, A Contract With God showed that comic-book artists could tackle the same gritty subjects and thorny issues as novelists. 'I can't claim to have invented the wheel,' Eisner later remarked, 'but I felt I was in a position to change the direction of comics.' Almost 30 years on, Eisner's brave example has spawned countless graphic novels on every subject imaginable. Take Persepolis (Cape, Marjane Satrapi's wholly enthralling account of growing up in Iran after the 1979 revolution. ("The Comic-Book Heroes with" 64)
In Dragon Slippers (Harper Press), Rosalind B. Penfold uses the comic script to depict choices related to the emotional trauma of life with a violent and manipulative man. Although the approach may seem to contradict itself, the light comic-strip tone balances the weighty theme of emotional trauma and ultimately depicts choices that lend to a liberating effect. In a similar sense, Marisa Acocella Marchetto in Cancer Vixen (4th Estate) and Brian Fies in Mom's Cancer (Image) portray choices leading from the bleakest of situations to redemptive lightness. Even