Arresting DevelopmentMainstream narratives of the graphic novels development describe the forms coming of age, its maturation from pulp infancy to literary adulthood. In Arresting Development, Christopher Pizzino questions these established narratives, arguing that the mediums history of censorship and marginalization endures in the minds of its present day readers and, crucially, its authors. Comics and their writers remain burdened by the stigma of literary illegitimacy