graphic novels
Long-form sequential art
Graphic novels are book-length works that tell stories through sequential art—panels of illustrations with text, similar to comic books but longer and typically bound as a single volume.
The term emerged partly to distinguish serious or literary comics from superhero fare, though the boundary is blurry: Maus won a Pulitzer Prize and helped legitimize the graphic novel as literature.
Some graphic novels collect previously serialized comics; others are conceived as standalone works.
- comicsSequential art medium
- superheroesCostumed figures with powers
- bande dessinéeFrench graphic novel form
- mangaJapanese comic medium
- underground comixTransgressive self-published comics
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- booksnovel, textbooks, study guides, book, paperback
- digital mediawebsites, films, ebook, content creation, movies
- book collectionscomplete works, box set, boxed set, collected works, volumes
- bookstore sectionsclassics, textbooks, short stories, biography, reference books
- illustrated booksbook illustration, children's book art, picture books, storybook art, frontispiece
- Kids' ComicsGarfield, Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbes, Big Nate, Captain Underpants
graphic novelsprose fiction
Imaginary tales in sentences
novels · literary fiction · prose · chapter books · novellas
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