Yes, indeed. There is such a thing.
In my childhood, by the way — back when North America was almost two yards further to the east northeast than it is today — we didn’t know about “graphic novels.” We read comic books. But that term, I take it, is very much out of fashion these days, and, from what I’ve seen of “graphic novels,” it really wouldn’t be adequate to them anyway.
Be that as it may, though, there is now, in fact, a graphic novel about what it’s like to serve as a Mormon missionary in Japan. It was written by a former missionary there. And another former missionary thinks does a pretty good job:
I never saw it coming.
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