Through the collaboration of the written word and sequential art, autobiographical graphic novels are demonstrated to capture the reader's interest through their simultaneous depiction of emotions and actions. The intertextual nature of graphic novels promotes greater student immersion leading to a greater appreciation of the author's story. Offering a multi-layered perspective on memory visualization; First-person graphic novels should be viewed with the same reverence with which we accord written and oral accounts, and used as a vital teaching tool of historical events. Using examples of comics in pedagogy and in the autobiographical works Maus and Persepolis, this article will illustrate the importance of this art form as an adaptable and educational tool. Graphic novels allow readers to interact with its substance in multiple modalities within a single medium. . This combination of text and images helps students cultivate a greater understanding of the content by forcing them to slow down the reading process. (Williams 13) The interaction between images and the written word encourages participants to read in a non-linear pattern in contrast to traditional text-only formats. Graphic novels nurture skills not normally used: reader interaction with visual and written texts takes time. Graphic novels have been compared to the language of hypertext, where this format (Cromer, Clark 575) is classified as "flexible and open-ended, approached in multi-layered ways" (Cromer, Clark 575). This offers students the opportunity to examine both the interdependence of images and how they relate to text for the purpose of conveying story by allowing students to deconstruct Novels and history teaching." Theory and research in social education 35.4 (2007): 574-591. Print.Davis, Rocío G. "A Graphic Self: Comics as Autobiography in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis." Prose Studies 27.3 (2005) : 264-279Eisner, Will . Print.Horstkotte, Silke and Nancy Pedri. "Focus in Graphic Narrative 19.3 (2011): 330-357. Richard History of Graphics: Essays on Graphic Novels and/as History Newcastle, UK: Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2012. Print.Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2003. Print. Spiegelman, art. Maus: A Survivor's Story. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986-1991. Print.Williams, Rachel Marie-Crane. "Image, text and story: comics and graphic novels in the classroom." Publications for teaching and learning (2008): 1.