Soap Opera

Emily Blair’s Soap Opera (2003–present) is a single-issue comic that uses the melodramatic structure of its namesake genre to explore interpersonal conflict and emotional stakes. Published as a standalone work, the series distills decades of soap-opera storytelling into a concise, character-driven narrative. Its significance lies in how it adapts the serialized, heightened drama of daytime television into the compressed format of a comic book.