Although I’ve read more than one biography of Jane Austen, this graphic biography contained insights I hadn’t read before. That’s probably not surprising, since Janine Barchas is an internationally renowned Austen scholar.
Using information from letters and quotations from Austen’s novels, this graphic biography follows Austen from 1796 until her death. In brighter colors, it contains a few scenes from her novels as in Austen’s imagination and some “Easter eggs’ of scenes from movies. I caught a couple of obvious ones, but I’m sure there were more.
The illustrations are in a naïve, slightly ugly style, but the characters are clearly identifiable, which isn’t always the case in graphic books.
I found this work entertaining and informative. It contains a “glossary” that provides more information for the interested.
What? Me Read? 
I don’t read graphic books, though I did once read a manga version of P&P and surprisingly enjoyed it a lot. Not enough to make me read more though! But they certainly seem to have grown in popularity.
Every once in a while, there’s a really clever one, but I don’t usually read them unless someone I trust recommends it. I think the one I thought was most interesting was a mystery, by Hannah Berry, Britten and Brülightly. For one thing, the illustrations were really good, which isn’t often the case (very often they’re primitive at best), and for another, Britten was a detective and Brülightly was his sidekick, a tea bag. For some reason that just struck my funny bone.