In article <8vgab5-lqc.ln1@nntp.stir.ac.uk>, sam@ssrl.org.uk says...
> In article ,
> Amethyst Deceiver writes:
> > In article <31v9b5-lqc.ln1@nntp.stir.ac.uk>, sam@ssrl.org.uk says...
> > > In article ,
> > > Amethyst Deceiver writes:
> > > > Possibly because Judge Dredd and 2000AD were comics, not graphic novels.
> > >
> > > Having once spent almost an entire year listening to someone try to explain
> > > what a `literary work' is and how it's entirely different to a `book' I can
> > > hardly wait for the definition of the difference between a `graphic novel'
> > > and a `comic book'.
> >
> > I didn't say it was a comic book, I said it was a comic. 'Comic' is the
> > one with lots of different stories that last for weeks and weeks. Like
> > Beano and Dandy - or would you call them comic books too?
>
> Weeelll... V for Vendetta first appeared in Warrior, in instalments. A
> Close Relative collected it obsessively. When Warrior collapsed, he joined
> the letter-writing campaign to persuade DC to take it on. V4V was a story
> in a comic before it was anything else. But if I extract the instalments
> from a _comic_ and publish them all together in one single item as a
> continuous story, that's a `comic book'. Isn't it?
If you want it to be. The same as extracting all the installments of
Dickens' columns and publishing them as a single item turns them into a
book. I'd still call it a (graphic) novel though. |