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The Graphic Novel

The Graphic Novel. Reading and telling through images. What is it?. G raphic novels are narrative works where the story is conveyed using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comic format.

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The Graphic Novel

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  1. The Graphic Novel Reading and telling through images

  2. What is it? • Graphic novels are narrative works where the story is conveyed using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comic format. • Includes non-fiction works and thematically linked short stories as well as fictional stories across a number of genres. • It suggests a complete story that has a beginning, middle and end, as opposed to an ongoing series. It can also imply a story that is outside the genres commonly associated with comic books, or that deals with more mature themes.

  3. What is it not? • It is NOT a comic book! • Comic books are segmented into issues or series’ graphic novels are not • The term GRAPHIC NOVEL is often used to disassociate works from the juvenile or humorous connotations of the terms comics and comic book, implying that the work is more serious, mature, or literary than traditional comics.

  4. Confused?You are not alone. • Many “graphic novel” authors find the term unnecessary or insulting. • Writer Alan Moore believes, "It's a marketing term ... that I never had any sympathy with. The term 'comic' does just as well for me. ... The problem is that 'graphic novel' just came to mean 'expensive comic book' and so what you'd get is people like DC Comics or Marvel Comics — because 'graphic novels' were getting some attention, they'd stick six issues of whatever worthless piece of crap they happened to be publishing lately under a glossy cover and call it The She-Hulk Graphic Novel...” • Writer Neil Gaiman, responding to a claim that he does not write comic books but graphic novels, said the commenter "meant it as a compliment, I suppose. But all of a sudden I felt like someone who'd been informed that she wasn't actually a hooker; that in fact she was a lady of the evening."

  5. Award Winning Graphic Novels: • Maus: A Survivor's Tale, by Art Spiegelman • Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons • Girl Genius, Volume 8: Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones by Kaja & Phil Foglio • From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell • Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

  6. Film Adaptations of Graphic Novels just to name a few!

  7. Looking for Suggestions? • http://www.dccomics.com/sites/essential30/ • http://www.amazon.com/Graphic-Novels-thick-comic-books/lm/3RVHVUQTG3UZJ • http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2009/11/the-20-best-graphic-novels-of-the-decade.html • LIBRARY! • BOOK STORE!

  8. A word from Neil Gaiman • Famous “GRAPHIC NOVELIST” speaks: • http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=neil+gaiman&aq=0

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