Anyone else a fan of graphic novels?

[Paranoid]

My favorite is the full JTHM collection.

[AnkhClock]

I am! I like the Scott Pilgrim series, among others. I'm also into Tintin, though I'm not sure if everyone would classify that as a graphic novel (I would).

Also Batman. I have Year One and The Long Halloween.

[Paranoid]

I am! I like the Scott Pilgrim series, among others. I'm also into Tintin, though I'm not sure if everyone would classify that as a graphic novel (I would).

Also Batman. I have Year One and The Long Halloween.

I'm still trying to get my hands on Scott Pilgrim, and I am a fan on Tintin.

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By graphic novels, do you mean comics? If so: Achewood is quite fine.

[buttplug]

Asterix, Dragonball, some assorted others.

By graphic novels, do you mean comics? If so: Achewood is quite fine.

That's a webcomic. A graphic novel is, well, a novel depicted graphically.

[AnkhClock]

By graphic novels, do you mean comics? If so: Achewood is quite fine.

Uh Achewood's a web comic. Graphic novels are comic books but thicker.

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Yes, but you can buy the books and read them... GRAPHICALLY.

[Paranoid]

No other Johnny The Homicidal Maniac fans?

[Smurfberry]

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[WrenchClock]

Superman: Red Son is pretty fine

[Smurfberry]

also jimmy corrigan this depressing brick of a book is done by a guy who used to be a draftsman so the art is amazing

[Topcatyo]

I haven't ready any obscure stuff, but what I've read Watchmen, V For Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (all the Alan Moore is incidental), and You Are Here.

[Smurfberry]

I haven't ready any obscure stuff, but what I've read Watchmen, V For Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (all the Alan Moore is incidental), and You Are Here.

how was League?

[Topcatyo]

how was League?

Fanfuckingtastic

[miracle fruit]

you are all dumb

they are called trade paperbacks

[Slurpee]

you are all dumb

they are called trade paperbacks

ACTUALLY, MOM

TPB is a publishing term comicbook fans inaccurately use to refer to collections of comicbooks that were originally published in another format. Referring to all graphic novels as trade paperbacks is just a further inaccuracy.
The JTHM and Batman Year One collections are trade paperbacks, but Fun Home, for example, isn't.

On top of that, "graphic novel" is essentially just another way of saying "comicbook", which, while usually associated with comics published in the popular magazine format, is actually itself a semantically dubious way of referring to any stories told through sequential illustration. The term "graphic novel" implies a long narrative with illustration taking the place of literary prose, which a lot of comicbooks are anyway, and a lot of "graphic novels" notably aren't. It's a childish attempt to divorce "mature" material in this narrative format from its stigmatized roots, used by marketing departments to make readers and insecure authors feel better about ensconcing themselves in cartoons. "Comic" is good enough for Jeff Smith and Alan Moore. I say it's good enough so for we, drawers of silly fruit cartoons.

But that's semantics.
Call them whatever you want, everybody! It's a wonderful world of individual parlance!
Crusty, sweaty, throbbing individual parlance!


Y: The Last Man was pretty good.

[miracle fruit]

its what hipsters and cool people like me call them slurpee

deal with it

[Slurpee]

Hipsters call it "sequential art".

[Topcatyo]

I do think there's a difference between "graphic novels" and "comic books". Comic books are published monthly, and you could actually call them magazines since they fit the definition of that word, too. "Comic book" implies a consisent and frequent release date for a series, whereas "graphic novel" refers to something where the release date is decided like, well, novels.  Really, they're both comic books, though.

Then again I've seen you talk about this kinda stuff before and you clearly know much more than more than me so I'm just a butt.

[Topcatyo]

Also, hipsters don't read comic books/graphic novels/sequential art.

They read flipbooks.