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	Paul Gravett: Graphic Novels - Stories To Change Your Life
		And in the attempt to break free from the restrictive demands of innocence, the modern graphic novel was born.
		Graphic novels, whether composed as such or assembled as collections of comics, are one of the most interesting artistic genres of our time.
		The graphic novel is a radically impure form, and liable to mockery by those who refuse to understand its origins, its conventions and its subject matters.
	www.paulgravett.com /books/graphicnovels/graphicnovels.htm (10975 words)

	Graphic novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A serialised work of similar length may occasionally be called a "graphic novel" regardless of whether it has been published in collected form, by analogy to the works of writers such as Charles Dickens, which were first serialized and were (arguably) "novels" regardless of their publication format.
		The term "graphic novel" is commonly used to disassociate works from the juvenile and/or humorous connotations of the terms "comics" and "comic book".
		The term "graphic novel" was popularized by Will Eisner after it appeared on the cover of the trade paperback edition of A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories (Baronet Books, published October 1978), a mature, complex work focusing on the lives of ordinary people in the real world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Graphic_novel (1285 words)

	Business Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		However, "Graphic novel" was used as early as November 1964 by Richard Kyle in CAPA-ALPHA #2, a newsletter published by the Comic Amateur Press Alliance, and again in Kyle's Fantasy Illustrated #5 (Spring 1966).
		Long-form comic books existed long before the term's popularization and subsequent use as a marketing category: for example, the book-length (and hardcovered) Franco-Belgian comics featuring Tintin, Asterix and Spirou are graphic novels.
		Members of the movement are known as Graphic Novelists, and their work as Graphic Novels.
	www.bizencyclopedia.com /index.php?title=Graphic_novel (588 words)

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		An good example of this kind of Graphic Novel is the Preacher books by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, a rousing adventure series about a southern preacher who, though the escaped offspring of a demon and an angel, gains a power in which anything he tells someone to do, they must do unquestioningly.
		All-in-all, the Graphic Novel suffers much of the same problems facing the conventional novel, namely the shrinking of its audience and the continuing difficulty of its creators to make a living at their craft.
		Graphic Novels are overall better now in quality than ever in the history of the medium, but with the continuing domination of people's entertainment/art-time by the Big Three popular media -- movies, television and video games – there remains a question of who in the future will be left to read them.
	www.ericrosenfield.com /graphicnovel.html (1231 words)

	NYTimes Mag Article 7/11/04 - The Comics Journal Message Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		If "comics" and "graphic novels" had never ocme into being in their recognizable forms, we would not be referring to the qualities of a modern graphic novel present in Masereel's work.
		Graphic novel is a disagreeable term, but we will use it anyway on the understanding that 'graphic' has nothing to do with graphics and that 'novel' does not mean anything to do with 'novel'.
		While the graphic novelist regards his various antecedents as geniuses and prophets without whose work he could not have envisioned his own, he does not want to be obliged to stand in line behind William Hogarth's Rake's Progress every time he obtains a piece of publicity for himself or the art in general.
	www.tcj.com /messboard/ubb/Forum1/HTML/007792-6.html (4233 words)

	Columbus Alive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Palomar is a town filled with the most desirable of women, and equally full of men who will do anything to have them.
		Originally published from 1981 to 1996 in the graphic novel series Love and Rockets, Palomar is the story of Luba, a vivacious, ample-breasted Latina who arrives in the mythical town of Palomar and turns its inhabitants’ world upside-down.
		It is the perfect graphic novel to change the opinions of snotty elitists who don’t like “comic books.” Of course, if those same elitists can’t see the brilliance in these collected works, at 500 pages, the book can probably be used to beat some sense into them.
	www.columbusalive.com /2004/20040218/021804/02180416.html (627 words)

	read yourself RAW - Profile: Gilbert Hernandez
		Imagine a novel by Gabriel Garciá Marquez told in comic form, with the depth and vibrancy to bring a fictional Latin American village and it's people to life.
		Palomar is the intricate tale of the relationships between the citizens of that town - their lives, loves and deaths.
		Luba is the matriarch of the mythical Latin American village of Palomar.
	www.readyourselfraw.com /profiles/hernandez_g/profile_hernandezbeto.htm (485 words)

	Graphic novel explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A graphic novel is a long-form comic book or manga ; the comics analogue to a prose novel or novella.
		Chandler: Red Tide by Jim Steranko used the term "graphic novel" in its introduction and was labelled "a visual novel" on the cover, although Chandler is more properly an illustrated novel than a work of comics.
		Jarndyce, and no one in whom he is interested can be an object where there was a lame invalid of a sofa.
	www.wordspider.net /gr/graphic-novel.html (618 words)

	COMICON.com: FROM HELL--a true graphic novel?
		Jeez, if THIS isn't a graphic novel, than I guess I'll never know what is. Depth of character, profound sense of time and place, remarkable interwoven narrative and thematic threads that all tie up in a stunning tapestry intersecting with our own lives and times...
		In comics and graphic novels; even the ones that are merely tpb or prestige format collections of miniseries and suchlike there.
		Graphic novel should, imho, be used as a descriptive term for a work of more than a given length regard of the quality.
	www.comicon.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=000407 (5518 words)

	Salon.com Life \| Real women
		Certainly, the best graphic novelists are also literary, but the unique impact of their art comes from combining the techniques of literature with those of painting, cinema and theater.
		Graphic art is the artistic medium perhaps most suited to chronicling life as it is lived: as a visual record of physical action and change, and an emotional record of people as the sum parts of their speech, interactions and relationships with the outside world.
		Palomar is matriarchal both politically (Palomar's mayor and sheriff are both women) and in the sense that many families are headed by single mothers.
	archive.salon.com /mwt/feature/2001/02/20/hernandez/print.html (2248 words)

	Graphical Novels \| TIME Magazine - ALL-TIME 100 Novels
		This semi-autobiographical novel set in the snowy hinterlands of Wisconsin tells the story of a lonely, artistic young man who struggles with his fundamentalist Christian upbringing when he falls in love.
		One of the best-selling graphic novels of all time, this fl comedy version of Batman's latter days masterfully combines satire with superhero antics without betraying it's central character's core of danger.
		A kind of über graphic novel that collects a series of smaller graphic novels all situated in a small town "somewhere south of the U.S. border," this giant tome by a seminal comic artist will likely be the author's magnum opus.
	www.time.com /time/2005/100books/0,24459,graphic_novels,00.html (1111 words)

	An Introduction to Graphic Novels
		This true-crime graphic novel tells of his other big case, the one that ruined him: a series of gruesome killings.
		The graphic novel on which it is based is a little different, emphasizing the relationship between the two young women, and spending less time on secondary characters.
		Some of you may be wondering, “Where are the great superhero graphic novels?” The short answer is that there aren’t any suitable for people who think they don’t like superhero comics.
	www.fourcolor.org /blog/2006/05/an-introduction-to-graphic-novels (1236 words)

	Graphic novel news - News, previews, information and reader opinion from Grovel.org.uk - the source for graphic novel ...
		Graphic novel news - News, previews, information and reader opinion from Grovel.org.uk - the source for graphic novel reviews.
		Although not a graphic novel, Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers is bound to appeal to anyone with an interest in both comics and great writing.
		Dave Gibbons 's graphic novel The Originals is set to be released by DC Comics's Vertigo imprint in October.
	www.grovel.org.uk /news/archive/2004_05_01_grovel_archive.html (1233 words)

	foldedspace.org: Graphic Novels for People Who Hate Comics
		Comics and graphic novels are often marginalized by the well-read, and that's too bad.
		Somehow you have overlooked a graphic novel which superbly tells the story of my favorite novel, The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith and Scott Bieser.
		He is credited by some (including Scott McCloud) with inventing the graphic novel genre and several of his works, The Contract With God trilogy and The Building in particular, are amazing examples of story telling that had never been done (or done that successfully).
	www.foldedspace.org /weblog/2006/05/graphic_novels_for_people_who.html (4524 words)

	IPL Teenspace: Procrastinator
		Graphic novels offer appealing stories and engaging visuals that reach out to reluctant readers, visual learners, and others who may shy away from traditional, print-heavy books.
		Yet graphic novels offer the same benefits of regular books: introducing young people to new vocabulary, “book language,” and stories and information to teach them about their world and spark their imaginations.
		With well-written stories, engaging artwork, and a range of genres, themes, and age levels, graphic novels are finding their place in libraries and schools worldwide.
	www.ipl.org /div/procrast/graphicnovels/gnsSchoolsNLibs.html (558 words)

	Halo Graphic Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Graphic novel - A graphic novel (GN) is a long-form comic book, usually with lengthy and complex storylines, and often aimed at more mature audiences.
		Palomar (graphic novel) - Palomar (subtitled The Heartbreak Soup Stories) is the title of a graphic novel written and drawn by Gilbert Hernandez and published in 2003 by Fantagraphics Books (ISBN 1560975393).
		"Novell Linux Desktop 9 Administrator's Handbook" brings the super villain as only be able to the icon to a chaotic halo graphic novel into English.
	www.graphittipop.com /halographicnovel.html (688 words)

	A Graphic Literature Library
		Spiegelman seems to be making the same mistake that people who won't consider comics and Graphic Novels seriously make (I realize he really knows better) by associating a type of content with the form.
		School and public librarians across the country have added graphic novels to their collections; Comics and graphic novels have been the subject of many programs at state, regional and national library conferences and workshops.
		TIME.comix responds: The intention of the opening anecdote was only to exemplify the on-going challenge of "graphic novel" as a term and a form, not to disparage librarians.
	www.michaeldougan.com /blog/b1531149743/C844276496/E1296740827 (2671 words)

	NYTimes Mag Article 7/11/04 - The Comics Journal Message Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Poetry is poetry, novels are novels and comics are comics, pretending to be something else is futile, worthless and silly.
		he keeps asking how my novel is coming along, with the obvious implication that i have moved up in the world (from what he knows i was doing previously).
		Chester compares the graphic novel to great literature of the past and the graphic novel comes of worse.
	www.tcj.com /messboard/ubb/Forum1/HTML/007792-4.html (4313 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Palomar (graphic novel)
		Palomar (subtitled The Heartbreak Soup Stories) is the title of a graphic novel written and drawn by Gilbert Hernandez and published in 2003 by Fantagraphics Books (ISBN 1-56097-539-3).
		Palomar is the fictional town in Latin America where all the stories presented are set.
		Palomar is included in Time Magazine's Best Comix of 2003.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Palomar_(graphic_novel) (122 words)

	Fiction Graphic Novel Store
		In his debut graphic novel Channel Zero, writer/artist Brian Wood introduced readers to Jennie 2.5, self-styled media activist and symbol of resistance and change in an imprisoned America.
		is a modern novel written in the ancient language of pictures, and its expressionist graphics hold a film noir edge.
		The Truth graphic novel comes with The Truth CD soundtrack which includes the hip-hop, rock, and pop jams of Sonny Bones, Venus Pumping, 4th Avenue Jones, D, and Poetri.
	www.galactium.com /geekshop/Graphic_Novel_Fiction.html (9456 words)

	Graphic Novels ~ Billington Library @ JCCC
		This is a compilation of Eisner’s original graphic novel with an introduction by modern master Neil Gaiman.
		This is another biography of the father of graphic novels in the United States.
		This is a study of the rise of graphic novels and alternative comics.
	library.jccc.net /guides/literature/graphicnovels.html (1563 words)

	artbomb.net
		Palomar is the mythical Central American town where the "Heartbreak Soup" stories take place.
		Luba, the guiding spirit of Palomar since the outset, has been hailed by The Nation, Rolling Stone, and Time magazine as one of the great characters of contemporary American fiction.
		Palomar follows the lives of its residents from Luba's arrival in the town to her exit, twenty years later.
	www.artbomb.net /preview.jsp?t=palomar (370 words)

	World Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A graphic novel ( GN) is a work of art produced within the form of the comic book.
		A graphic novel is sometimes thought of as a long-form comic book or manga ; the comics analogue to a prose novel or novella.
		The Big Comic Book DataBase ( http://www.comics-db.com/) an online searchable database of graphic novel and creator information.
	www.worldencyclopedia.net /index.php?title=Graphic_novel (559 words)

	Readers Advisory - Graphic Novels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This graphic novel is based on the episodes when Buffy died trying to save Dawn from the mystical energy that opened the various dimensions.
		Frank Miller opens this great graphic novel by telling us that if the only Batman we remember was Adam West, then we do not know the real Batman, the much darker one is presented here.
		She winds up with a violent boyfriend (not portrayed graphically) but manages to take all this pain and does not give up on her dream of a college education.
	www.mls.lib.il.us /consulting/ra_graphic_novels.asp (4614 words)

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		Luba arrived in Palomar in1983, struggling to make a home for herself and her four girls in the hermetically sealed community, and we have witnessed her growth over the years (both spiritually and physically) into the very heart (and mayor) of the town.
		Tales that had once seemed often motivated by a deep romanticism of Palomar and its residents here reveal a deeply critical commentary on the town and its residents—particularly in the retreat into conservatism or romanticism on the part of many of its strongest chararacters.
		For example, Carmen, who we first encounter as a young girl wise beyond her years and most of the adult population of the town, seems destined to serve as narrator for the community—a storyteller whose impish vision will serve to bring together the disparate narratives of the community.
	www.uiowa.edu /~ijcs/comics/gardner.htm (1878 words)

	COMICON.com: First time graphic novel reader. Suggestions? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		There are actually two different things here, "graphic novels," which are to comic books as novels are to short stories, and "epic sagas" or some such term that hasn't been invented yet.
		The problem is, most of the graphic novels I would recommend most highly are also those I tend to recommend to people who don't read comics and who don't like superheroes.
		Definitely NOT graphic novels in any unified way, but some collections of very, very good comics cheap is Marvel's "Essentials" series, especially "The Essential Spider-Man" (five volumes so far) and "The Essential Fantastic Four." They're dated, obviously (especially the first couple FF), but that's the foundation of the whole Marvel Universe.
	www.comicon.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=17&t=000096 (3633 words)

	ALA \| Top 10 Graphic Novels
		Most graphic novels collect sequential comic books or runs of particular strips, and when they collect work as good as Alison Bechdel’s, Gilbert Hernandez’s (see also Story behind the Story, opposite page), and Jim Woodring’s, they welcomely bestow permanency on fugitive material.
		But most of the 10 best graphic novels that came Booklist’s way during the past 12 months collect nonsequential comic books and stories from several sources, or were conceived to be freestanding books.
		Richly detailed, this graphically distinguished, genuinely novelistic graphic novel is a classic of the form.
	www.ala.org /ala/booklist/speciallists/speciallistsfeat/Top10GraphicNovels.htm (558 words)

	The Crow Graphic Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		When Esau, Seneca, Attar, the crow graphic novel and the human woman, Crow, make a stand in a snowy forest, all seems lost, but a mysterious forest legend, a warrior in fl armor, may provide a rescue.
		Brought to Light (graphic novel) - Brought to Light is a graphic novel published by Eclipse Comics in 1989.
		On these pages are found the best of graphic design big book design environmental and the visual images showing the power of visual communications.This lavishly illustrated volume presents all aspects of graphic design chosen from the thousands of...
	en82.mikropm.com /thecrowgraphicnovel.html (1450 words)

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