Paper Idea

Like Cassandra, I really liked how there were bits of fact and truth in From Hell. Especially since its a graphic novel which are normally associated with comic books and superheroes which are based in little to no fact. I've been a big comic book reader since I was little but I've always enjoyed comics and graphic novels that are based in realism. My favorite book, Craig Thompson's "Blankets" falls into this category because it is a semi-autobiographical tale that could have easily just been a novel and no one would have noticed the difference, but the artwork along with the story really makes the book something special.
I would like to base my paper on the idea of realism in the world of graphic novels and comic books using "From Hell", "Blankets", and Art Spigelman's graphic novel "Maus" which has a lot to do with the Holocaust only all of the human characters are actually portrayed as animals in the book. The Jews are mice, Germans cats, Americans dogs etc.. I think that focusing on how these books have broken new ground in a medium that had been reserved for capes and guns would be a really interesting paper.