- A graphic novel "is a book made up of comics content. Although the word "novel" normally refers to long fictional works, the term "graphic novel" is applied broadly, and includes fiction, non-fiction, and anthologized work. It is distinguished from the term "comic book", which is used for comics periodicals."
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- Blankets "is an autobiographical graphic novel by Craig Thompson, published in 2003 by Top Shelf Productions. As a coming-of-age autobiography, the book tells the story of Thompson's childhood in an Evangelical Christian family, his first love, and his early adulthood. The book was widely acclaimed, with Time magazine ranking it #1 in its 2003 Best Comics list, and #8 in its Best Comics of the Decade."
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- Gemma Bovery (ISBN 0-2240-6114-3) "is a graphic novel written by Posy Simmonds.
Originally published as a serial in The Guardian, it was published in book form in 1999.
It is the tragicomic story of the life and death of an English expatriate in Normandy, drawing many parallels to Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary."
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Gemma Bovery "is a 2014 French drama film based on the 1999 graphic novel by Posy Simmonds of the same name. "
- In the Shadow of No Towers "is a 2004 work of comics by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman. It is about Spiegelman's reaction to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. It was originally serialized as a comic strip in the German newspaper Die Zeit from 2002 until 2004, and was collected as an oversized board book in 2004 with early American comic strips as supplementary material."
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- Maus "is a graphic novel completed in 1991 by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The book uses postmoderntechniques—most strikingly in its depiction of races of humans as different kinds of animals, with Jews as mice, Germans as cats and non-Jewish Poles as pigs. Maus has been described as memoir, biography, history, fiction, autobiography, or a mix of genres. In 1992 it became the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize."
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- 2 Primary characters
- 3 Background
- 4 Publication history
- 5 Themes
- 6 Style
- 7 Reception and legacy
- 8 See also
- William Erwin "Will" Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) "was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry, and his series The Spirit (1940–1952) was noted for its experiments in content and form. In 1978, he popularized the term "graphic novel" with the publication of his book A Contract with God. He was an early contributor to formal comics studieswith his book Comics and Sequential Art (1985). The Eisner Award was named in his honor, and is given to recognize achievements each year in the comics medium; he was one of the three inaugural inductees to the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame."
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- 1 Biography
- 2 Eisner & Iger
- 3 The Spirit
- 4 World War II and Joe Dope
- 5 American Visuals Corporation
- 6 Graphic novels
- 7 Teaching
- 8 Death
- 9 Awards and honors
- 10 Original books
