I tiptoed my way into graphic novels right after college when I fell into a nasty reading slump. I was afraid of comic books, because the whole superhero thing has never been a trope I followed and I thought comic books were only, like, Superman. But then I listened to a bunch of Book Riot podcasts and heard repetitive love letters to Lumberjanes. I found ’em on my library’s OverDrive collection and spent an afternoon singing about friendship to the max as I read as many issues in one sitting as I could. Now I get SO EXCITED about fun superhero girl comic books. Like Squirrel Girl. Yes.

Part of Conversion Stories: The Comics that Turned Us into Comics Readers at Book Riot.