Getting graphic

I’ve always been an admirer of graphic novels — but, I must confess, mostly in concept. I’ve read some shorter pieces, like the ones published in the New York Times Magazine on Sundays, but never an entire book. Until last weekend, when I got hold of A Thousand Ships, the first volume in Eric Shanower’s projected seven volume Age of Bronze, a history of the Trojan War.

I’m on a historical fiction kick anyway, because that’s the theme of the upcoming Key West Literary Seminar, and the latest in this series, the third volume, got a boffo review on Salon, one of my favorite sources for new titles. So I tracked down the first volume through interlibrary loan and it really is that good.