Canadian Graphic Novels for Reluctant Readers
Canadian Graphic Novels for Reluctant Readers

Summary/Abstract: Canadian authors, illustrators and publishers have entered wholeheartedly into the field of the graphic novel, and the enthusiasm certainly extends to the consumers of this genre. Given the quality and variety of recent graphic novels, the genre deserves serious critical attention. This paper will present an overview of newly-available graphic products from Canada and consider their potential as a means to reach resistant readers—and, at more advanced levels, those resistant to interpretive critique. Using contemporary theory of visual rhetoric, the paper will offer critical approaches that could bring those readers closer to both the text and the critical concepts. Texts will include Atwood & Nault’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2019), Tamaki & Tamaki’s This One Summer (2014), Goto & Xu’s Shadow Life (2021), Pauls’ Dakwȁkãda Warriors (2019), This Place: 150 Years Retold by Akiwenzie-Damm et al. (2019), and Milne & Compton’s The Blue Road: A Fable of Migration (2019).

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