When I mentioned to a friend that I was working on an article about graphic novels, he said, hopefully, ”You mean porn?”.
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It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.
If you really think about it, even what you might call realistic styles of cartooning are actually very abstracted. They’re all symbols.
Graphic novel is a red herring name – something that was come up with to provide a more respectable term for comic book.