Table of Contents
207 relations: A Contract with God, Academy of Comic Book Arts, Alan Moore, Alberto Breccia, Alfred A. Knopf, Alpha Books, American comic book, American Institute of Graphic Arts, Anthology, Archie Goodwin (comics), Arnold Drake, Art Spiegelman, Artist's book, Asterix, Ballantine Books, Bande dessinée, Bantam Books, Bernie Wrightson, Bill Sienkiewicz, Bill Spicer, Black Panther (character), Blackmark, Blankets (comics), Bloodstar, Bone (comics), Book, Book Industry Study Group, Bookselling, Bryan Talbot, Cambridge University Press, Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell), Caran d'Ache, Cartoonist, Casterman, Catalan Communications, Chandler: Red Tide, Charles Vess, Charlie Mensuel, Charlotte Salomon, Che Guevara, Chicago Review Press, Citizen 13660, Classics Illustrated, Collage novel, Columbia University, Comic book, Comic Book Resources, Comics, Comics and Comix, Comics studies, ... Expand index (157 more) »
- 1971 introductions
- Comics formats
- Digests
- Graphic novels
- Novel forms
A Contract with God
A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Will Eisner published in 1978.
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Academy of Comic Book Arts
The Academy of Comic Book Arts (ACBA) was an American professional organization of the 1970s that was designed to be the comic book industry analog of such groups as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Alan Moore
Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English author known primarily for his work in comic books including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of Halo Jones, ''Swamp Thing'', Batman: The Killing Joke, and From Hell.
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Alberto Breccia
Alberto Breccia (April 15, 1919 – November 10, 1993) was an Uruguayan-born Argentine artist and cartoonist.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is an American publishing house that was founded by Blanche Knopf and Alfred A. Knopf Sr. in 1915.
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Alpha Books
Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Random House, is an American publisher best known for its Complete Idiot's Guides series.
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American comic book
An American comic book is a thin periodical originating in the United States, on average 32 pages, containing comics. Graphic novel and American comic book are comics formats.
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American Institute of Graphic Arts
The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) is a professional organization for design.
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Anthology
In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs, or related fiction/non-fiction excerpts by different authors.
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Archie Goodwin (comics)
Archie Goodwin (September 8, 1937 – March 1, 1998) was an American comic book writer, editor, and artist.
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Arnold Drake
Arnold Drake (March 1, 1924 – March 12, 2007) was an American comic book writer and screenwriter best known for co-creating the DC Comics characters Deadman and the Doom Patrol, and the Marvel Comics characters the Guardians of the Galaxy, among others.
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Art Spiegelman
Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948), professionally known as Art Spiegelman, is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus.
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Artist's book
Artists' books (or book arts or book objects) are works of art that utilize the form of the book.
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Asterix
Asterix (Astérix or Astérix le Gaulois, "Asterix the Gaul") (also known as Asterix and Obelix in some adaptations or The Adventures of Asterix) is a comic book series about a village of indomitable Gaulish warriors (including the titular hero Asterix) who adventure around the world and fight the odds of the Roman Republic, with the aid of a magic potion, during the era of Julius Caesar, in an ahistorical telling of the time after the Gallic Wars.
Ballantine Books
Ballantine Books is a major American book publisher that is a subsidiary of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.
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Bande dessinée
Bandes dessinées (singular bande dessinée; literally 'drawn strips'), abbreviated BDs and also referred to as Franco-Belgian comics (BD franco-belge), are comics that are usually originally in French and created for readership in France and Belgium. Graphic novel and bande dessinée are comics formats.
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Bantam Books
Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by parent company Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group.
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Bernie Wrightson
Bernard Albert Wrightson (October 27, 1948 – March 18, 2017) was an American artist, known for co-creating the Swamp Thing, his adaptation of the novel Frankenstein illustration work, and for his other horror comics and illustrations, which feature his trademark intricate pen and brushwork.
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Bill Sienkiewicz
Boleslav William Felix Robert Sienkiewicz (born May 3, 1958) is an American artist known for his work in comic books—particularly for Marvel Comics' New Mutants, Moon Knight, and Elektra: Assassin.
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Bill Spicer
Bill Spicer (born October 1, 1937) is an American editor and publisher who spearheaded the 1960s movement away from commercial comics, opening the gateway to underground, alternative, and independent comics, notably with his publication Graphic Story Magazine.
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Black Panther (character)
Black Panther is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Blackmark
Blackmark is a paperback book (Bantam S5871) published by the American company Bantam Books in January 1971.
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Blankets (comics)
Blankets is an autobiographical graphic novel by Craig Thompson, published in 2003 by Top Shelf Productions.
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Bloodstar
Bloodstar is an American fantasy comic book published in 1976.
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Bone (comics)
Bone is an American fantasy comic book limited series written and illustrated by Jeff Smith, originally serialized in 55 irregularly released issues from 1991 to 2004.
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Book
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images.
Book Industry Study Group
The Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG) is a U.S. trade association for policy, technical standards and research related to books and similar products.
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Bookselling
Bookselling is the commercial trading of books which is the retail and distribution end of the publishing process.
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Bryan Talbot
Bryan Talbot (born 24 February 1952) is a British comics artist and writer, best known as the creator of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and its sequel Heart of Empire, as well as the ''Grandville'' series of books.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell)
Captain Marvel (real name: Mar-Vell; Earth alias Walter Lawson) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Caran d'Ache
Caran d'Ache was the pseudonym of the 19th century Russian-French satirist and political cartoonist Emmanuel Poiré (6 November 1858 – 25 February 1909).
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Cartoonist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images).
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Casterman
Casterman is a publisher of Franco-Belgian comics, specializing in comic books and children's literature.
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Catalan Communications
Catalan Communications was a New York City publishing company that existed from 1983 to 1991.
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Chandler: Red Tide
Chandler: Red Tide is a 1976 illustrated novel, an early form of graphic novel, by writer-artist Jim Steranko.
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Charles Vess
Charles Vess (born June 10, 1951) is an American fantasy artist and comics artist who has specialized in the illustration of myths and fairy tales.
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Charlie Mensuel
Charlie Mensuel (or simply Charlie, "mensuel" being a French term for a monthly periodical) was a French monthly comics magazine.
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Charlotte Salomon
Charlotte Salomon (16 April 1917 – 10 October 1943) was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin.
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Che Guevara
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (14 June 1928The date of birth recorded on was 14 June 1928, although one tertiary source, (Julia Constenla, quoted by Jon Lee Anderson), asserts that he was actually born on 14 May of that year. Constenla alleges that she was told by Che's mother, Celia de la Serna, that she was already pregnant when she and Ernesto Guevara Lynch were married and that the date on the birth certificate of their son was forged to make it appear that he was born a month later than the actual date to avoid scandal.
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Chicago Review Press
Chicago Review Press, or CRP, is a U.S. book publisher and an independent company founded in 1973.
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Citizen 13660
Citizen 13660 is a book about internment of Japanese Americans written by Miné Okubo.
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Classics Illustrated
Classics Illustrated is an American comic book/magazine series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as Les Misérables, Moby-Dick, Hamlet, and The Iliad.
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Collage novel
Collage novel is used by different writers and readers to describe three different kinds of novel: 1) a form of artist's book approaching closely (but preceding) the graphic novel; 2) a literary novel that approaches "collage" metaphorically, juxtaposing different modes of original writing; and 3) a novel that approaches collage literally, incorporating found language and possibly combining other modes of original writing.
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Columbia University
Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.
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Comic book
A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Graphic novel and comic book are comics formats.
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Comic Book Resources
CBR, formerly Comic Book Resources, is a news website covering movies, television, anime, video games and comic book–related news and discussion.
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Comics
a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information.
Comics and Comix
Comics and Comix Co.
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Comics studies
Comics studies (also comic art studies, sequential art studies or graphic narrative studies) is an academic field that focuses on comics and sequential art.
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Craig Thompson
Craig Matthew Thompson (born September 21, 1975) is an American graphic novelist best known for his books Good-bye, Chunky Rice (1999), Blankets (2003), Carnet de Voyage (2004), Habibi (2011), and Space Dumplins (2015).
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Daniel Clowes
Daniel Gillespie Clowes (born April 14, 1961) is an American cartoonist, graphic novelist, illustrator, and screenwriter.
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Dave Gibbons
David Chester Gibbons (born 14 April 1949) is an English comics artist, writer and sometimes letterer.
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DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. (doing business as DC) is an American comic book publisher and the flagship unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Death of the novel
The death of the novel is the common name for the theoretical discussion of the declining importance of the novel as literary form.
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Dennis O'Neil
Dennis Joseph O'Neil (May 3, 1939 – June 11, 2020) was an American comic book writer and editor, principally for Marvel Comics and DC Comics from the 1960s through the 1990s, and Group Editor for the Batman family of titles until his retirement.
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Detective
A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency.
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Diamond Comic Distributors
Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. (often called Diamond Comics, DCD, or casually Diamond) is an American comic book distributor serving retailers in North America and worldwide.
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Digest size
Digest size is a magazine size, smaller than a conventional or "journal size" magazine, but larger than a standard paperback book, approximately. Graphic novel and Digest size are comics formats and Digests.
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Direct market
The direct market is the dominant distribution and retail network for American comic books.
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Doctor Strange
Dr.
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Don McGregor
Donald Francis McGregor (born June 15, 1945) is an American comic book writer best known for his work for Marvel Comics; he is the author of one of the first graphic novels.
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Douglas Wolk
Douglas Wolk (born 1970) is a Portland, Oregon-based author and critic.
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Dracula
Dracula is a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker, published on 26 May 1897.
Dream SMP
The Dream SMP (sometimes referred to as DSMP; formerly as the Dream Team SMP) was an invite-only survival multiplayer (SMP) ''Minecraft'' server.
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Eclipse Comics
Eclipse Comics was an American comic book publisher, one of several independent publishers during the 1980s and early 1990s.
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Enki Bilal
Enki Bilal (born Enes Bilal; born 7 October 1951) is a French comic book creator and film director.
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Essay
An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.
Fantagraphics
Fantagraphics (previously Fantagraphics Books) is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, manga, magazines, graphic novels, and (formerly) the erotic Eros Comix imprint.
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Fantastic Four
The Fantastic Four is a superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Fanzine
A fanzine (blend of fan and magazine or -zine) is a non-professional and non-official publication produced by enthusiasts of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) for the pleasure of others who share their interest.
Father Christmas (book)
Father Christmas is a British children's picture book written and drawn by Raymond Briggs and published by Hamish Hamilton in 1973.
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Fawcett Comics
Fawcett Comics, a division of Fawcett Publications, was one of several successful comic book publishers during the Golden Age of Comic Books in the 1940s.
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Fiction Illustrated
Fiction Illustrated is a short-lived series of early illustrated fiction, similar to graphic novels, produced and packaged by Byron Preiss Visual Productions in the 1970s and published by Pyramid/Jove/HBJ.
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Film noir
Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylized Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations.
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Frank Miller
Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American comic book artist, comic book writer, and screenwriter known for his comic book stories and graphic novels such as his run on ''Daredevil'', for which he created the character Elektra, and subsequent ''Daredevil: Born Again'', The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year One, Sin City, and 300.
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Frans Masereel
Frans Masereel (31 July 1889 – 3 January 1972) was a Belgian painter and graphic artist who worked mainly in France.
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Gekiga
is a style of Japanese comics aimed at adult audiences and marked by a more cinematic art style and more mature themes.
Gene Day
Howard Eugene Day (August 13, 1951 – September 23, 1982) was a Canadian comics artist best known for his work on Marvel Comics' Star Wars licensed series and Master of Kung Fu.
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George Metzger
George Metzger (born 1939) is an American cartoonist and animator.
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Gil Kane
Gil Kane (born Eli Katz,; April 6, 1926 – January 31, 2000) was a Latvian-born American comics artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and virtually every major comics company and character.
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Giles Coren
Giles Robin Patrick Coren (born 29 July 1969) is a British columnist, food writer, and television and radio presenter.
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Gold Medal Books
Gold Medal Books, launched by Fawcett Publications in 1950, was an American book publisher known for introducing paperback originals, a publishing innovation at the time.
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Grand Comics Database
The Grand Comics Database (GCD) is an Internet-based project to build a database of comic book information through user contributions.
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Graphic Story Magazine
Graphic Story Magazine was an American magazine edited and published by Bill Spicer in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Guido Buzzelli
Guido Buzzelli (27 July 1927 – 25 January 1992) was an Italian comic book artist, writer, illustrator and painter.
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Hardboiled
Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction).
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Hardcover
A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as casebound (At p. 247.)) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).
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Harvey Kurtzman
Harvey Kurtzman (October 3, 1924 – February 21, 1993) was an American cartoonist and editor.
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Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book
Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman, published in 1959.
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Héctor Germán Oesterheld
Héctor Germán Oesterheld, also known as his common abbreviation HGO (born July 23, 1919; disappeared and presumed dead 1977), was an Argentine journalist, comics editor and writer of graphic novels and comics.
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He Done Her Wrong
He Done Her Wrong is a wordless novel written by American cartoonist Milt Gross and published in 1930.
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His Name Is... Savage
His Name Is...
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Histoire de Mr. Vieux Bois
Histoire de Mr.
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Houston Chronicle
The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States.
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Hugo Pratt
Ugo Eugenio Prat (15 June 1927 – 20 August 1995), better known as Hugo Pratt, was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as Corto Maltese.
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Internment of Japanese Americans
During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), mostly in the western interior of the country.
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It Rhymes with Lust
It Rhymes with Lust is a "picture novel" published in 1950.
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J. M. DeMatteis
John Marc DeMatteis (born December 15, 1953) is an American writer of comic books, television and novels.
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Jack Katz (artist)
Jack Katz (born September 27, 1927) at the Lambiek Comiclopedia is an American comic book artist and writer, painter and art teacher known for his graphic novel The First Kingdom, a 24-issue epic he began during the era of underground comix.
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Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg; August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was an American comic book artist, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators.
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Jeff Smith (cartoonist)
Jeff Smith (born February 27, 1960) is an American cartoonist.
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Jim Starlin
James P. Starlin (born October 9, 1949) is an American comics artist and writer.
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Jim Steranko
James F. Steranko (born November 5, 1938) is an American graphic artist, comic book writer/artist, comics historian, magician, publisher and film production illustrator.
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John Byrne (comics)
John Lindley Byrne (born July 6, 1950) is a British-born American writer and artist of superhero comics.
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John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
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Jon J Muth
Jon J Muth (born July 28, 1960) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books as well as graphic novels and comic books.
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Jules Feiffer
Jules Ralph Feiffer (born January 26, 1929)Comics Buyer's Guide #1650; February 2009; Page 107 is an American cartoonist and author, who at one time was considered the most widely read satirist in the country.
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Jungle Action
Jungle Action is the name of two American comic book series published by Marvel Comics and its 1950s precursor, Atlas Comics.
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Lambiek
Galerie Lambiek is a Dutch comic book store and art gallery in Amsterdam, founded on November 8, 1968 by Kees Kousemaker (– Bussum). His son Boris Kousemaker has been the owner since 2007.
Le Figaro
() is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826.
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Les Humanoïdes Associés
Les Humanoïdes Associés (or Humanoids) is a French-American publishing house specializing in comics and graphic novels, founded in December 1974 by comic artists Mœbius, Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Philippe Druillet, and financial director Bernard Farkas.
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Leslie Waller
Leslie Elson Waller (April 1, 1923 – March 29, 2007) was an American writer.
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Library
A library is a collection of books, and possibly other materials and media, that is accessible for use by its members and members of allied institutions.
Limited series (comics)
In the field of comic books, and particularly in the United States, a limited series is a comics series with a predetermined number of issues.
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Line (comics)
A line is a concept in Western comic books which denotes a specific group of publications by a publisher.
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List of award-winning graphic novels
This is a list of graphic novels which have won a notable award. Graphic novel and list of award-winning graphic novels are graphic novels.
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List of best-selling comic series
This page provides lists of best-selling comic book series to date.
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Livre d'art
Livres d'art (French for art books or books of art), otherwise referred to as livres de galerie (French for gallery books), are books in which the illustration holds a predominant place in relation to the text.
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Lynd Ward
Lynd Kendall Ward (June 26, 1905 – June 28, 1985) was an American artist and novelist, known for his series of wordless novels using wood engraving, and his illustrations for juvenile and adult books.
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Magazine
A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content.
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Manga
are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Graphic novel and Manga are comics formats.
Manning Lee Stokes
Manning Lee Stokes (June 21, 1911 – January 5, 1976) was an American novelist who used a large number of pseudonyms.
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Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics is an American comic book publisher and the property of The Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023.
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Marvel Fireside Books
Marvel Fireside Books were a series of full-color trade paperbacks featuring Marvel Comics stories and characters co-published by Marvel and the Simon & Schuster division Fireside Books from 1974 to 1979.
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Marvel Graphic Novel
Marvel Graphic Novel (MGN) is a line of graphic novel trade paperbacks published from 1982 to 1993 by Marvel Comics.
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Matt Baker (artist)
Clarence Matthew Baker (December 10, 1921 – August 11, 1959 at the Lambiek Comiclopedia) was an American comic book artist and illustrator, best known for drawing early comics heroines such as the costumed crimefighter Phantom Lady, and romance comics.
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Maus
Maus, often published as Maus: A Survivor's Tale, is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991.
Max Ernst
Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet.
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Merriam-Webster
Merriam-Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books and is mostly known for its dictionaries.
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Michael Kaluta
Michael William Kaluta, sometimes credited as Mike Kaluta or Michael Wm.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
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Milt Gross
Milt Gross (March 4, 1895 – November 29, 1953) was an American cartoonist and animator.
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NBM Publishing
Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing Inc. (or NBM Publishing) is an American graphic novel publisher.
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Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (born Neil Richard Gaiman on 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and screenplays.
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Neologism
In linguistics, a neologism (also known as a coinage) is any newly formed word, term, or phrase that nevertheless has achieved popular or institutional recognition and is becoming accepted into mainstream language.
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Newsarama
Newsarama is an American website that publishes news, interviews, and essays about the American comic book industry.
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Non-fiction
Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real world, rather than being grounded in imagination.
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Non-fiction comics
Non-fiction comics, also known as graphic non-fiction, is non-fiction in the comics medium, embracing a variety of formats from comic strips to trade paperbacks.
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NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide
The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide (or Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide) is an annually published comic book price guide widely considered the primary authority on the subject of American comic book grading and pricing in the hobby/industry.
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Passionate Journey
Passionate Journey, or My Book of Hours (Mon livre d'heures), is a wordless novel of 1919 by Flemish artist Frans Masereel.
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Paul Gulacy
Paul Gulacy (born August 15, 1953) is an American comics artist best known for his work for DC Comics and Marvel Comics, and for drawing one of the first graphic novels, Eclipse Enterprises' 1978 Sabre: Slow Fade of an Endangered Species, with writer Don McGregor.
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Periodical literature
A periodical literature (also called a periodical publication or simply a periodical) is a published work that appears in a new edition on a regular schedule.
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Pocket Books
Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books.
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Pseudonym
A pseudonym or alias is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym).
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Pssst!
Pssst! (styled as pssst!) was a short-lived British comics magazine published by Never–Artpool in 1982.
Public domain
The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.
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Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.
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Pulp magazine
Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955.
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R. C. Harvey
Robert C. Harvey (May 31, 1937 – July 7, 2022) was an American author, critic and cartoonist.
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Ray Osrin
Raymond Harold Osrin (October 5, 1928 – April 3, 2001) was an American comic book artist and cartoonist.
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Raymond Briggs
Raymond Redvers Briggs (18 January 1934 – 9 August 2022) was an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author.
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Richard Corben
Richard Corben (November 1, 1940December 2, 2020) was an American illustrator and comic book artist best known for his comics featured in Heavy Metal magazine, especially the Den series which was featured in the magazine's first film adaptation in 1981.
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Rick Veitch
Richard Veitch (born May 7, 1951) is an American comics artist and writer who has worked in mainstream, underground, and alternative comics.
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Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American writer who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres.
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Rodolphe Töpffer
Rodolphe Töpffer (31 January 1799 – 8 June 1846) was a Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist. He is best known for his illustrated books (littérature en estampes, "graphic literature"), which are possibly the earliest European comics. He is known as the father of comic strips and has been credited as the "first comics artist in history." Paris-educated, Töpffer worked as a schoolteacher at a boarding school, where he entertained students with his caricatures.
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Russ Heath
Russell Heath Jr. (September 29, 1926 – August 23, 2018) was an American artist best known for his comic book work, particularly his DC Comics war stories and his 1960s art for Playboy magazine's "Little Annie Fanny" feature.
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Sabre (comics)
Sabre is the title of a creator-owned American graphic novel, first published in August 1978.
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Sam Glanzman
Samuel Joseph Glanzman (December 5, 1924 – July 12, 2017) was an American comics artist and memoirist.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
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Secrets of Sinister House
Secrets of Sinister House was a horror-suspense anthology comic book series published by DC Comics from 1972-1974, a companion to Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion.
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Sequential art
In comics studies, sequential art is a term proposed by comics artist Will EisnerWill Eisner, Comics and Sequential Art, Poorhouse Press, 1990 (1st ed.: 1985), p. 5.
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She-Hulk
She-Hulk (Jennifer Susan Walters) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Short story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction.
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Speech balloon
Speech balloons (also speech bubbles, dialogue balloons, or word balloons) are a graphic convention used most commonly in comic books, comics, and cartoons to allow words (and much less often, pictures) to be understood as representing a character's speech or thoughts.
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Spider-Man
Spider-Man is a superhero in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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St. John Publications
St.
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Stan Lee
Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber; December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher and producer.
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Steve Ditko
Stephen John Ditko.
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Steve Gerber
Stephen Ross Gerber (September 20, 1947 – February 10, 2008) was an American comic book writer and creator of the satiric Marvel Comics character Howard the Duck.
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Steven Grant
Steven Grant (born October 22, 1953) is an American comic book writer best known for his 1985–1986 Marvel Comics mini-series The Punisher with artist Mike Zeck and for his creator-owned character Whisper.
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Story arc
A story arc (also narrative arc) is the chronological construction of a plot in a novel or story.
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Strange Tales
Strange Tales is a Marvel Comics anthology series.
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Superhero
A superhero or superheroine is a stock character who typically possesses ''superpowers'' or abilities beyond those of ordinary people, is frequently costumed concealing their identity, and fits the role of the hero; typically using their powers to help the world become a better place, or dedicating themselves to protecting the public and fighting crime.
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Sword and sorcery
Sword and sorcery (S&S) or heroic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent adventures.
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Tankōbon
A is a standard publishing format for books in Japan, alongside other formats such as and bunkobon. Graphic novel and Tankōbon are comics formats.
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The Adventures of Luther Arkwright
The Adventures of Luther Arkwright is a comic book limited series written and drawn by Bryan Talbot in the period 1978–1989.
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The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of 24 comic albums created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, who wrote under the pen name Hergé.
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The Ballad of the Salty Sea
The Ballad of the Salty Sea is a graphic novel, the first episode of the adventures of Corto Maltese, a Maltese sailor.
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The Dark Knight Returns
The Dark Knight Returns (alternatively titled Batman: The Dark Knight Returns) is a 1986 four-issue comic book miniseries starring Batman, written by Frank Miller, illustrated by Miller and Klaus Janson, with color by Lynn Varley, and published by DC Comics.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Shadow
The Shadow is a fictional character created by American magazine publishers Street & Smith and writer Walter B. Gibson.
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The Snowman (book)
The Snowman is a wordless children's picture book by British author Raymond Briggs, first published in 1978 by Hamish Hamilton in the United Kingdom, and published by Random House in the United States in November of the same year.
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The Spectacular Spider-Man
The Spectacular Spider-Man is a comic book and magazine series starring Spider-Man and published by Marvel Comics.
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The Spectator
The Spectator is a weekly British news magazine focusing on politics, culture, and current affairs.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.
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The Yellow Kid
The Yellow Kid (Mickey Dugan) is an American comic-strip character that appeared from 1895 to 1898 in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, and later William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Trade paperback (comics)
In comics in the United States, a trade paperback (shortened: TPB or trade) is a collection of stories originally published in comic books, reprinted in book format, usually presenting either a complete miniseries, a story arc from a single title, or a series of stories with an arc or common theme. Graphic novel and trade paperback (comics) are comics formats.
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Underground comix
Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books that are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. Graphic novel and Underground comix are 1960s neologisms.
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Understanding Comics
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art is a 1993 non-fiction work of comics by American cartoonist Scott McCloud.
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Une semaine de bonté
Une semaine de bonté ("A Week of Kindness") is a collage novel and artist's book by Max Ernst, first published in 1934.
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University of Exeter
The University of Exeter is a research university in the West Country of England, with its main campus in Exeter, Devon.
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Vertigo Comics
Vertigo Comics (also known as DC Vertigo or simply Vertigo) was an imprint of American comic book publisher DC Comics started by editor Karen Berger in 1993.
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Vida del Che
Vida del Che is an Argentine biographical graphic novel written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and illustrated by Alberto Breccia and Enrique Breccia.
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Visual novel
A visual novel (VN) is a form of digital interactive fiction.
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Walt Simonson
Walter Simonson (born September 2, 1946) is an American comic book writer and artist, best known for a run on Marvel Comics' Thor from 1983 to 1987, during which he created the character Beta Ray Bill.
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Waste collector
A waste collector, also known as a garbage man, garbage collector, trashman (in the U.S), binman or dustman (in the UK), is a person employed by a public or private enterprise to collect and dispose of municipal solid waste (refuse) and recyclables from residential, commercial, industrial or other collection sites for further processing and waste disposal.
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Watchmen
Watchmen is a comic book limited series by the British creative team of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons and colorist John Higgins.
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Westlake Village, California
Westlake Village is a city in Los Angeles County, California on its western border with Ventura County.
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When the Wind Blows (comics)
When the Wind Blows is a 1982 graphic novel, created by British artist Raymond Briggs, commonly known for its critiques against government issued preparations for nuclear war.
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Will Eisner
William Erwin Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur.
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Woodcut
Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking.
Wordless novel
The wordless novel is a narrative genre that uses sequences of captionless pictures to tell a story.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Yale University
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
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See also
1971 introductions
- 10 µm process
- 6 μm process
- Blaxploitation
- Competition and credit control (UK)
- Ecomuseum
- Goatman (urban legend)
- Graphic novel
- Gurney flap
- Invalidity Benefit
- KFC in South Africa
- Microprocessor
- N-body units
- No true Scotsman
- PSAT/NMSQT
- Passer rating
- Pazz & Jop
- Reptation
- Rosa 'Charlotte Brownell'
- Signing Exact English
- Space station
- Unit-linked insurance plan
- Win probability
- Yamaha DT250
- Yerkish
Comics formats
- American comic book
- Bande dessinée
- Cerebus phonebook
- Comic book
- Comic book archive
- Comic strip
- Daily comic strip
- Digest size
- Digital comic
- Dollar Comics
- Film comic
- Gag-a-day
- Graphic novel
- Limited Collectors' Edition
- Manfra
- Manga
- Manhua
- Manhwa
- Marvel Treasury Edition
- Minicomic
- Mobile comic
- Motion comic
- Original English-language manga
- Photo comics
- Sunday comics
- Tankōbon
- Text comics
- Topper (comic strip)
- Trade paperback (comics)
- Webcomic
- Webtoon
Digests
- Animerica
- Children's Digest
- Digest size
- Granta
- Graphic novel
- Jet (magazine)
- Mercury Publications
- Pageant (magazine)
- Prevention (magazine)
- Reader's Digest
- Shock Totem
Graphic novels
- Graphic novel
- Graphic novelists
- L'abbaye truquée
- Le viste la cara a Dios
- List of award-winning graphic novels
- Ulysses "Seen"
Novel forms
- Annotated edition
- Antinovel
- Blovel
- Cell phone novels
- Chain novel
- Encyclopedic novel
- Fix-up
- Graphic novel
- Hybrid novel
- Microblogging novel
- Mosaic novel
- Non-fiction novel
- Omnibus edition
- Real time (media)
- Saga novel
- Three-volume novel
- Three-volume novels
- Web novels
- Yellow-back
References
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