Recently I was sent a graphic novel, or as we might have called it in the past, a collection of comic strips. This hardback volume, published (with the help of crowdfunding) by comics aficionado Nat Karmichael, contains artist Monty Wedd’s 146-part ‘true crime’ biography from the 1970s, Ned Kelly. Wedd was a history buff as well as an accomplished artist, so his visual detail was impressive, as was his day-by-day scrutiny of the short lives of the Kelly Gang (which, like the short lives of Elvis and Marilyn, have been chronicled profusely over the decades).