Abstract: Today, comics and graphic novels serve as two of the most significant sources of learning practices for children because of their vast arena and they being the amalgamation of two important mediums that help children to learn and comprehend faster and better. Both comic books and graphic novels deal with vivid pictures which prove to be the perfect nutrition for a child's early mental development along with the speech bubbles that introduce new words into the child's vocabulary. Graphic novels like the Tintin series, Asterix the Gaul, Persepolis, Maus and Bhimayana not only expand the horizons of a child's imagination but also provide them with worldwide pieces of information thus, expanding their horizons. They help a child get acquainted with new worlds, concepts, individuals and help increase his/her reading appetite simultaneously. This paper deals with the role of comics and graphic novels in the early developmental stages of children with references to certain English and Indian comics and graphic novels, and how they are adapting to the contemporary genres to maintain their position.