The Best Graphic Novels of 2020 By Ed Park and Hillary Chute Dec. 9, 2020 As the assorted pressures of this year weighed down on your Graphic Content columnists, we periodically sought escape in our reading material — but many of our favorite comics titles for 2020 tackled serious matters head on: racism, police violence, the refugee crisis, colonialism, mental illness. There’s some humor to be found in the selections below, which are far-flung in time and space. But what’s most remarkable, in this excruciating year, is how these books — and the medium itself — seem capable of illuminating just about anything. Image The Cleveland-based cartoonist Derf Backderf grew up 10 miles away from campus, and his years-in-the-making