Drome

"Books remain an analog bulwark against the visual slop of artificially generated imagery. Even, or especially, the ‘lowbrow’ category of comics can bring us greater delight than any number of algorithms. Illustration is alive and well. Perhaps the most surprising entry on this list — and the one that reaffirms my faith in graphic novels as a serious artform, is Drome . This is not idle entertainment. The novel’s visuals and narrative combine into a meditation on alienation, memory, identity. And they do so in the most innovative way. The page layouts are astonishing in this epic retelling of human creation myths, with effects that linger in the imagination for its refusal to arrive at any today narrative resolution."