![]() ![]() Examples are DC Comic’s Batwoman: Elegy (Rucka, Williams, & Jones, 2010), and more recently Marvel’s AMERICA: The Life and Times of Amer ica Chavez (Rivera et al., 2017). The issue I am butting up against this week is what about trades? Trades are usually comic book story arcs that are originally published as a set of floppies and then is published – without all the ads and previews – in a “graphic novel edition”. ![]() ![]() There is so much movement, excitement, fear, and joy that the point of the event (defining, this gaining clarity) is sometimes lost on the need to impose a structure. But, the problem of defining a form that is constantly changing and evolving, like graphic novels, is that it is like trying to determine a toddler’s shoe size while chasing them around Disneyland. When I say graphic novels I mean long-form comics that are not Manga or comic books (sometimes known as floppies). I study graphic novels, but lately I am not sure that term means what I think it means. Any story can be told using the comics form, just as any story can be told in paintings, film, poetry, or traditional print-text novels. Comics are the medium or form – images and words working together, bounded by panel, to communicate. ![]()
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