The New Yorker: The Critics: Books - Issue of 2005-10-17. Posted 2005-10-10.
"Peter Schjeldah's harsh review of graphic novels" via K.
to item books ... and 12 other people ..

huh. I don't find it harsh. quite even, I think. and likely astute:
Nearly all art movements are launched by work that, when the dust clears, turns out to have been their definitive, peak contribution. “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” looms over the busy ramifications of Cubism as “The Waste Land” looms over the modern poetry that it inspired. Accordingly, there may never be another graphic novel as good as “Jimmy Corrigan,” even by Ware himself—whose current serial in the Times Magazine, though tangy, bespeaks a style on cruise control. But if the major discoveries of the graphic novel’s new world of the imagination have already been accomplished, its colonizing of the territory, like its threat to foot traffic in bookstore aisles, has only just begun.

that's hardly saying all the good stuff's over. just: the great beginning.