I consider graphic novels to be book made up of comics content. Basically, trade paperbacks that collect stories from single issue stories and put them together in a cohesive whole or storyline. There are some that consider graphic novels to simply be those stand-alone books like Kingdom Come or Watchmen, but I consider all of them graphic novels.Dragonlayer said:Is there a technical difference between graphic novels and comics? Because I've always considered the former to be a term employed by people too self-conscious to admit to reading the latter.
To me "comic" simply means a single issue story. The accepted definition among most fans is that "comics" are American comics, usually centering around a heroic archetype story while "manga" is anything with characters with big eyes no matter the genre or origin and "graphic novels" are things like American Born Chinese and Persepolis.
To me, they are all part of the same graphic medium that I've loved since first grade when I picked up my first copy of Elfquest at a local library. Back then comics were not something that went into libraries, and finding a huge, hardcover, IN COLOR book like that was a big freaking deal. And now I travel around the US to addict more people to the graphic medium.
wetfart said:Yup, basically its a degree in knowing how to find ANY POSSIBLE information and how to disseminate that information into a usable medium.CpT_x_Killsteal said:Had to look it up to see if you were joking. You weren't. So it's basically a degree in storing, managing, and analyzing data right. Learn something new every day.