March (comics)

The civil rights movement as told by one of the people who marched in it. John Lewis wrote this memoir trilogy with Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell drew and lettered it, from Book One in 2013 to Book Three in 2016. Powell's lettering does real work, swelling and shrinking with the noise of sit-ins and beatings. Book Three won the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the first graphic novel ever to win a National Book Award, which changed where comics could be taken seriously. Read all three volumes in order; they work as one book.