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According to industry reports, [24] [25] "the massive shift to graphic novels as the preferred format for comics continued in 2019 bringing sales in the book channel above the comic store channel in North America for the first time in the history of the medium" [26] and that "the sales of graphic novels were growing faster in the book trade ...
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A graphic novel is a long-form work of sequential art.The term graphic novel is often applied broadly, including fiction, non-fiction, and anthologized work, though this practice is highly contested by comics scholars and industry professionals.
The graphic novel—book-length comics—began to gain attention after Will Eisner popularized the term with his book A Contract with God (1978). [41] The term became widely known with the public after the commercial success of Maus , Watchmen , and The Dark Knight Returns in the mid-1980s. [ 42 ]
Manga (漫画) are comic books or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, though the art form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term manga is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning in general. Outside Japan, the word is typically used to ...
The graphic novel was awarded to Newsweek ' s Ten Best Fiction books list, and was created into a film in 2007. [34] Reading Persepolis "lends itself to discussion of literary strategies and to teaching visual literacy, as well as to broader discussions of cultural difference as constructed in art and the media and as experienced in life".
In 2006, Gene Luen Yang's graphic novel American Born Chinese, originally published as a webcomic on Modern Tales, was the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award. [33] Don Hertzfeldt 's animated film based on his webcomics, Everything Will Be OK , won the 2007 Sundance Film Festival Jury Award in Short Filmmaking, a prize ...
The Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide by Robert Overstreet—Edition #35 ISBN 0-375-72107-X; The Steranko History of Comics, Vol. 1 & 2, by James Steranko—Vol. 1 ISBN 0-517-50188-0; Garrett, Greg, Holy Superheroes! Exploring the Sacred in Comics, Graphic Novels, and Film, Louisville (Kentucky): Westminster John Knox Press, 2008.