URI: <http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh94008233#concept>

Type: Topical Term

Alternate Labels: Comic book novels; Graphic albums; Graphic fiction; Graphic nonfiction; Graphic novellas; Nonfiction graphic novels

Broader Terms:

• Comic books, strips, etc.
• Fiction
• Popular literature

Editorial Notes:

• Ward. Longman companion to twentieth century literature, 1991; Random House; Web. 3

Sources:

• Work cat.: 94-23984: Rothschild, D.A. Graphic novels, 1995.
• LC database, Nov. 3, 1994 (40+ entries for individual graphic novels under series title)
• City of light, city of dark, c1993: t.p. (comic-book novel)
• Rothschild, D.A. Graphic novels, 1995: p. xiii (a graphic novel is a sturdy, lengthy comic book that contains a single story or a set of interrelated stories told using "sequential art"; other terms: trade comics (which already has a meaning in the industry); commix, invented by Art Spiegelman to describe "a co-mixing of words and pictures" (too similar to comics and comix to catch on); graphic album (the European term--same problem as graphic novel, with audio overtones); illu-novel (too clunky to catch on); and gekiga (the Japanese term for the genre))
• Gorman, M. Getting graphic!, c2003: p. xii (graphic novel is used in the library profession to describe an original book-length story, either fiction or nonfiction, published in comic book style or a collection of stories that have been published previously as individual comic books; conventional graphic novel begins and ends a story within the first and last page of the book; the use of the seemingly erroneous label of "novel" for all books created in a comic-style format must be understood and accepted as the status quo) p. 60 (graphic nonfiction) p. 66 (graphic work of nonfiction)
• Wikipedia, July 26, 2005 (Graphic novel (sometimes abbreviated GN) is a term for a kind of book, usually telling an extended story with sequential art (i.e. comics); most broadly used to refer to any long-form comic book or manga, i.e. the comics analogue to a prose novel or novella; can apply to works which were previously published serially in periodical comic books, or to works produced specifically for book-format publication; some use the term "graphic novella" for works that fit the general sense of the term (a single, well-developed story), but are less than 100 pages; in the book trade the term is sometimes extended to include material that would not be considered a "novel" if produced in another medium. Collections of comic book issues that do not form a single continuous story, anthologies of short loosely-related pieces, and even non-fiction are stocked by libraries and bookstores as "graphic novels")
• Lyga, A.A.W. Graphic novels in your media center, 2004: p. 15 (comic books can--and do--encompass the entire range of fiction and nonfiction) p. 17 (all graphic novels are comic books, but not all comic books are graphic novels)

Created: 2005-07-26

Last Modified: 2005-09-06 07:40:27



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