Graphic Novels Saved Me a Dime
Finally, my disjointed knowledge of graphic novels and science fiction paid off. Or at least saved me a dime.
Summit Coffee, my local coffee shop, has a daily trivia question, which gets you a ten cent discount if you get it right. If it’s local trivia or sports trivia, I’m a lost cause. But every once in a while the question is right up my alley.
Today’s question: What is the only graphic novel to have won a Hugo Award?
Immediately I’m thinking it’s either Frank Miller or Alan Moore. Art Spiegelman is probably the most mainstream prize-winningest graphic novelist, with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus, but I knew he never got a Hugo, one of the two leading science fiction awards (the other is the Nebula).
Most of Miller’s work isn’t science fiction, really — I would call it more superhero realism. So that left Moore, but which work? I had to go with his most acclaimed work: Watchmen.
Nailed it. And I was actually the first person today to get it right.
3 comments August 6th, 2008