Graphic Novels for Uncertain Times

Shelfies is a new series of short videos from researchers who have received funding from the British Academy, in which they discuss the books that inspired them or their work and helped them to share their ideas with the public.

Graphic novels can engagingly articulate complex stories and issues, deftly weaving together artistic and literary techniques to create gripping and informing narratives.

In this Shelfies video, Dominic Davies discusses defining works by Guy Delisle and Richard McGuire that have inspired him as well as how their imaginative arrangements of space and time can help us to make sense of crises and uncertainty in modern times.

The featured books are: Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City and Hostage by Guy Delisle, and Here by Richard McGuire.