You're listening to All the Backlist, a weekly show about books that aren't new.

I'm your host for the week, Tricia Brown, and this is episode number 413 and a half.

I hope you and yours are well, and I for one, I'm delighted to be back with you.

I have talked before on this podcast about picture books and how much I enjoy them.

I will be honest, I have a pretty extensive collection of picture books aimed at children in my home.

But it's only been the last maybe five or six years that I started to explore picture books for adults,

or as they are sometimes called graphic novels, graphic memoirs, that kind of thing.

I have to admit that kind of book can feel a little less accessible to me

because I have a hard time paying attention to both the words and the pictures,

let alone how they're meant to work together.

Yes, I know, I sound ridiculous, but maybe some of you can relate and are in the same boat.

Anyway, as I have explored a bit more, I've gotten better at not just accidentally ignoring the art,

which has been my problem in the past, and I've started to find some graphic novels,

some graphic memoirs that have really stuck with me,

and kind of pulled me into the medium in a way that I don't think words alone necessarily would have done.

I'm actually going to tell you about a few of them,

which you probably figured out since that's why we're here in just a minute.

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