Love This YA Novel? Try It In Comic Form.

Something that’s become a staple of young adult literature, thanks to over a decade of popularity, is the adaptation of beloved YA novels into comic form. These adaptations take the story you know and love in narrative form and bring it into a visual format. This, of course, means that not everything from the original text makes it into the comic, but the story itself, alongside beloved characters, gets the opportunity to play out in a new and fresh way.

Comics require a form of literacy that coincides with traditional reading skills. In addition to understanding how to parse text, comics require visual skills, too. This makes reading comic adaptations especially worthwhile: they can be a powerful introduction to a longer novel for readers, as much as they are excellent introductions to comics for readers who gravitate toward more traditional novels. The best part? Readers can experience both formats and walk away with a rich, meaningful reading experience.

Though YA comic adaptations aren’t new, over the last half-decade, an increasing number of beloved YA novels have been given the comics treatment. Some are by well-known authors with long-standing careers in young adult literature. Others are those who’ve...