where are the graphic NOVELS?

this is probably gonna sound more cranky than it should be but...

in a recent perusal of graphic novels i have found there is a much heavier emphasis on memoir and biography than what would be normally consider a "novel" in the fiction sense.

absurd statement, right?

but still

i think of maus and it's novel approach to an as-told-to memoir, a brilliant work of graphic narrative, and persepolis and and and

i'm just not finding the graphic novel that is fictive and strong enough to crack this world open like a safe. for kids, and especially for YA, where are the bradburys, the vonneguts, the zadie smiths and george saunders, the novelists of graphic novels?

besides neil gaiman, of course. that dude is a mercurial storyteller slipstreaming through the fictive universe. but does he have to be the only one?

i'm missing something, right? i have to be. ever since american born chinese took the printz and helped legitimize GN in the YA universe as literature there should have been a flood of folks who looked at their stories and thought "this might be better as a graphic rather than conventional novel"

i know.
no one is listening.
no one cares.
i'm an old wolf too blind to see that he's howling where there is no moon.

ahroooooooooooo!