Graphic Novels

When you work on

When you work on a graphic novel or a film with people you’ve been together through a lot and you’ve exposed your secrets and weaker sides to each other. Etgar Keret

The ability to get inside your character’s head in a graphic novel is really fun and useful because one, you can really define the character’s voice and two, it’s a way easier way to convey what the character’s thinking by actually laying out what he’s thinking. Eric Kripke

Graphic novels might really

Graphic novels might really speak to one child who’s struggling with the other kinds of reading and might help them discover that storytelling is joyful and personal and illuminating. They might find your way in auditorily by listening to audio books in the car instead of playing Game Boys or watching DVDs. Emma Walton Hamilton

Comics are actually dubbed

Comics are actually dubbed by euphemistic label of graphic novel, which became a big deal. Francoise Mouly

Graphic novel genre become

Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It’s really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small screen. Dustin Clare

I think graphic novels

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form. Denise Mina

I respond very well

I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it’s much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to … Read more

I often notice how

I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts – how a graphic novel about gentrification and an anthology about Hurricane Katrina and a journalistic account of war profiteering might all lead to very similar classroom conversations and critical engagement. I’m particularly interested in … Read more

I think with something

I think with something like Watchmen you can genuinely call that a graphic novel because it has the weight and the intent of a proper novel and it also is the complete story. Dave Gibbons

People unacquainted with graphic

People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of Watchmen as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form. Dave Gibbons