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...mean like pornographic?" queried the startled librarian when I asked for help researching articles about graphic novels. She had never heard the term for book-length comics used before. It's admittedly a not very well-liked phrase. Even among comic-makers the term only gets grudging usage, mostly because any alternative would be even less recognized. But "graphic novels" in name and in form have reached their 25th anniversary in 2003. To mark the occasion TIME.comix has two-part coverage. This week we look into their history, controversy and recent extraordinary growth. Next week will be an "instant library...
...actually the first long-form graphic story nor the first use of the phrase. It was, however, the first marriage of the term, which appeared on the cover, and the intent of "serious" comix in book form. "It was intended as a departure from the standard, what we call 'comic book format,'" Will Eisner recently told TIME.comix. "I sat down and tried to do a book that would physically look like a 'legitimate' book and at the same time write about a subject matter that would never have been addressed in comic form, which is man's relationship with...
...comix Holocaust memoir "Maus," recalled when "Contract" first came out. "I liked one of the stories very much but it didn't register with me as having anything to do with what I had already climbed on my isolated tower to try to make, which was a long comic book that would need a bookmark." In the past 25 years the meaning of the phrase has only gotten hazier and less satisfying. Japanese manga, superhero collections, non-fiction, autobiography - all of these are "graphic novels," a term that now applies to any square-bound book with a story told...
...comic novels I like always have some bottom,” Hornby said...
...Their readings are timed so as to fit in with the theme of the class the day before; so Nick Hornby comes at a time when we are discussing the English comic novel, for example,” Smith wrote...