Friday essay: is there a great Australian graphic novel?

Lee Lai's graphic novel 'Cannon' has made history as the first graphic novel to win Australia's prestigious Stella Prize, worth sixty thousand dollars, and Lai is the first non-binary author to claim the award. Lai was also named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist—the first comics creator to win that award in its thirty-year history. As The Conversation reports, this represents a watershed moment for Australian comics, with graphic novels increasingly recognized as serious literature.

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