Lauren Redniss has captured a fine review from the The New York Times with her new biography of Marie Curie:
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout
Click on the title above for the Amazon site and scroll down on the page to sample pages. They are very enticing.
Read The New York Times review by Dwight Garner: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/books/22book.html?ref=books
In the very beginning of the review, Garner does an excellent job of giving an explanation of the fuzzy, tentative status that graphic novels hold in the literary world, and general miasma rest-of-the-world, I guess.