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COMICS AND THE GRAPHIC NOVEL


I stared at the topic for the next Sisters in Crime/Los Angeles meeting. Why on earth this panel on novels with graphic sex? LOL. It didn’t take long to find out sex has little to do with graphic novels. I was discovering a genre I’d missed out on when I gave up reading the comics.

Wikipedia* describes a graphic novel as “a type of comic book, usually with a lengthy and complex storyline similar to those of novels and often aimed at mature audiences. The term also encompasses comic short story anthologies, and in some cases bound collections of previously published comic book series (more commonly referred to as trade paperbacks).” It also describes the term as “evolving.”

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