Noughts & Crosses: The Graphic Novel Adaptation

Malorie Blackman’s groundbreaking young-adult novel Noughts & Crosses gets a vivid graphic-novel adaptation, published by Penguin Random House from 2015 onward. Scripted by Blackman alongside Ian Edginton and illustrated by John Aggs, this single-issue volume translates the story’s alternate-world racial divide—where black “Crosses” rule over white “Noughts”—into a potent visual medium. It matters as a faithful, accessible entry point for a new generation to one of the most important YA sagas of the early 2000s.