![]() The book became the first Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel in 1992. Later, the cartoonist Art Spiegelman created Maus, which relayed his father’s experiences during the Holocaust through pictures in which Jews were mice, Germans were cats and Poles were pigs. Later, to help others understand the term he coined the definition: “a long comic book that would need a bookmark.” ![]() The term graphic novel first came about when cartoonist Will Eisner used the phrase to get publishers to recognize his 1978 work, A Contract with God: And Other Tenement Stories, as a novel rather than a comic book. As young people get more vocal about these issues, this trend is being reflected in the graphic novels they are reading. Teen activists worldwide are making headlines for their social justice advocacy on everything from climate change and immigration to substance abuse and LGBTQ issues. ![]()
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