Once viewed as junk that could rot impressionable brains, comics are now considered hip, hot and smart.
Even critics at the buttoned-up New York Times are singing the praises of high-profile, long-format books, called graphic novels, such as Art Spiegelman's disturbing take on 9/11, In the Shadow of No Towers, or Charles Burns' chilling AIDS parable, Black Hole.
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