My latest Life in Comics column is up at Publishers Weekly. This one is about the first graphic novel I ever read, The Picture Bible
What’s strange is that in re-reading my favorite chapter in the book — the one about Esther — I did not find a panel I clearly remember. The panel pictured Vashti and a servant telling her that the king had summoned her to appear before his guests. Vashti answers, bad-ass style, “Tell the king I will not be stared at by a group of drunken men!” And then she’s exiled and there’s mass abduction of girls to replace her. But in The Picture Bible, it cuts from the king throwing lavish parties immediately to him crowning Esther queen.
I must have had a longer version of that chapter that I read. It’s the only explanation I can think of. I don’t think I made up that scene.
