The Pig Flip , Written and Illustrated by Joshy Benedict, Translated from the Malayalam by K.K. Muralidharan, HarperCollins India, Rs 499

Joshy Benedict’s graphic novel, translated from Malayalam by K.K. Muralidharan, is a fable about self-loathing, paranoia and catharsis


Comics/graphic novels are and have always been a fantastic medium to explore obsessiveness. There’s something about the enforced discipline of limited space and the grammar-of-paneling that brings out characters’ neuroses in high-definition, so to speak. The Canadian cartoonist Seth’s book Wimbledon Green, for example, is a first-rate, tragedy-as-farce account of an obsessive comic-book collector. Epileptic by David B. is the semi-autobiographical story of a family’s individual and collective delusions.

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