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Graphic novel

Index Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a book made up of comics content. [1]

188 relations: A Contract with God, Academy of Comic Book Arts, Alan Moore, Alfred A. Knopf, Alpha Books, Amazing Heroes, American comic book, Anthology, Archie Goodwin (comics), Arnold Drake, Art Spiegelman, Artist's book, Asterix, Ballantine Books, Bantam Books, Bernie Wrightson, Bill Sienkiewicz, Bill Spicer, Black Panther (comics), Blackmark, Blankets (comics), Bloodstar, Bone (comics), Book Industry Study Group, Bookselling, Cambridge University Press, Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell), Caran d'Ache, Cartoonist, Catalan Communications, Chandler: Red Tide, Charles Vess, Charlie Mensuel, Charlotte Salomon, Chicago Review Press, Classics Illustrated, Collage novel, Columbia University, Comic book, Comic Book Resources, Comics, Comics and Comix, Comics Code Authority, Comics studies, Craig Thompson, Daniel Clowes, Dave Gibbons, DC Comics, Death of the novel, Dennis O'Neil, ..., Detective, Diamond Comic Distributors, Digest size, Direct market, Doctor Strange, Don McGregor, Douglas Wolk, Dracula, Dystopia, Eclipse Comics, Enki Bilal, Eurotrash (term), Fantastic Four, Fanzine, Father Christmas (comics), Fawcett Comics, Film noir, Franco-Belgian comics, Frank Miller (comics), Frans Masereel, Gekiga, Gene Day, George Metzger, Gil Kane, Giles Coren, Grand Comics Database, Graphic Story Magazine, Guido Buzzelli, Hardboiled, Hardcover, Harvey Kurtzman, Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book, His Name Is... Savage, Histoire de M. Vieux Bois, Houston Chronicle, Illustrated fiction, It Rhymes with Lust, J. M. DeMatteis, Jack Katz (artist), Jack Kirby, Jeff Smith (cartoonist), Jim Starlin, Jim Steranko, John Byrne (comics), John Updike, Jon J Muth, Jules Feiffer, Jungle Action, Le Figaro, Leslie Waller, Library, Limited series (comics), Line (comics), List of award-winning graphic novels, Lynd Ward, Magazine, Manga, Manning Lee Stokes, Marvel Comics, Marvel Fireside Books, Marvel Graphic Novel, Matt Baker (artist), Maus, Max Ernst, Merriam-Webster, Michael Kaluta, Middle Ages, Milt Gross, NBM Publishing, Neil Gaiman, Neologism, Newsarama, Non-fiction, Non-fiction comics, Novel, Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, Passionate Journey, Paul Gulacy, Periodical literature, Pocket Books, Pseudonym, Public domain, Publishing, Pulitzer Prize, Pulp magazine, R. C. Harvey, Ray Osrin, Raymond Briggs, Richard Corben, Rick Veitch, Robert E. Howard, Rodolphe Töpffer, Russ Heath, Sabre (Eclipse Comics), Sam Glanzman, Science fiction, Secrets of Sinister House, Sequential art, She-Hulk, Short story, Speech balloon, Spider-Man, St. John Publications, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Steve Gerber, Steve Lieber, Steven Grant, Story arc, Strange Tales, Superhero, Sword and sorcery, Tankōbon, The Adventures of Tintin, The Dark Knight Returns, The Guardian, The Shadow, The Snowman, The Spectacular Spider-Man, The Times, The Yellow Kid, Time (magazine), Trade paperback (comics), Underground comix, Understanding Comics, Une semaine de bonté, United States Navy, Vertigo (DC Comics), Visual novel, Walt Simonson, Waste collector, Watchmen, When the Wind Blows (comics), Will Eisner, Woodcut, Wordless novel, World War II, Yale University. Expand index (138 more) »

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 writer known primarily for his work in comic books including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of Halo Jones and From Hell.

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Alfred A. Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house that was founded by Alfred A. Knopf Sr. and Blanche Knopf in 1915.

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Alpha Books

Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Group, is an American publisher best known for its Complete Idiot's Guides series.

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Amazing Heroes

Amazing Heroes was a magazine about the comic book medium published by American company Fantagraphics Books from 1981 to 1992.

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American comic book

An American comic book is a thin periodical, typically 32-pages, containing comics content.

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Anthology

In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler.

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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

Art Spiegelman (born Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev on February 15, 1948) 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) are works of art that utilize the form of the book.

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Asterix

Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix (Astérix or Astérix le Gaulois) is a series of French comics.

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Ballantine Books

Ballantine Books is a major book publisher located in the United States, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine.

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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), sometimes credited as Berni Wrightson, 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), better known as Bill Sienkiewicz, is an American artist known for his work in comic books—particularly for Marvel Comics' The New Mutants and Elektra: Assassin.

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Bill Spicer

Bill Spicer (born October 1, 1937) is an 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 (comics)

Black Panther is a fictional superhero 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.

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Bone (comics)

Bone is an independently published comic book series, written and illustrated by Jeff Smith, originally serialized in 55 irregularly released issues from 1991 to 2004.

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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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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell)

Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) is a fictional superhero 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 French satirist and political cartoonist Emmanuel Poiré (6 November 1858 – 25 February 1909).

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Cartoonist

A cartoonist (also comic strip creator) is a visual artist who specializes in drawing cartoons.

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Catalan Communications

Catalan Communications was a New York City publishing company that existed from 1983 to 1991 and was operated by Bernd Metz (1944-2012), which mainly focused on English-language translations of European graphic novels, presented in a series of high-quality trade paperbacks.

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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 (April 16, 1917 – October 10, 1943) was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin.

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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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Classics Illustrated

Classics Illustrated is an American comic book/magazine series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as Les Miserables, Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Iliad.

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Collage novel

A Collage novel is a form of artist's book approaching closely (but preceding) the graphic novel.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Comic book

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.

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Comic Book Resources

Comic Book Resources, also known as CBR, is a website dedicated to the coverage of comic book-related news and discussion.

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Comics

a medium used to express ideas by images, often combined with text or other visual information.

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Comics and Comix

Comics and Comix Co. was a comic book retailer based in Berkeley, California, that for a short time also had a publishing division.

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Comics Code Authority

The Comics Code Authority (CCA) was formed in 1954 by the Comics Magazine Association of America as an alternative to government regulation, to allow the comic publishers to self-regulate the content of comic books in the United States.

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Comics studies

Comics studies (also comic(s) 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 a graphic novelist best known for his books Good-bye, Chunky Rice (1999), Blankets (2003), Carnet de Voyage (2004), and Habibi (2011).

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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. is an American comic book publisher.

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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 J. "Denny" O'Neil (born May 3, 1939) is 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 a comic book and pop-culture 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, but can also be and.

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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

Doctor Stephen Vincent Strange is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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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, and the author of one of the first graphic novels.

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Douglas Wolk

Douglas Wolk is a Portland, Oregon-based author and critic.

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Dracula

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.

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Dystopia

A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- "bad" and τόπος "place"; alternatively, cacotopia,Cacotopia (from κακός kakos "bad") was the term used by Jeremy Bentham in his 19th century works kakotopia, or simply anti-utopia) is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening.

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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 October 7, 1951) is a French comic book creator, comics artist and film director.

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Eurotrash (term)

"Eurotrash" is a derogatory term for certain Europeans, particularly those perceived to be arrogant, affluent, and expatriates in the United States.

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Fantastic Four

The Fantastic Four is a fictional 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.

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Father Christmas (comics)

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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Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those which emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations.

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Franco-Belgian comics

Franco-Belgian comics (bande dessinée franco-belge) are comics that are created for French-Belgian (Wallonia) and/or French readership.

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Frank Miller (comics)

Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American comic book writer, novelist, inker, screenwriter, film director, and producer best known for his comic book stories and graphic novels such as Ronin, ''Daredevil: Born Again'', The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City, and 300.

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Frans Masereel

Frans Masereel (31 July 1889 – 3 January 1972) was a Flemish painter and graphic artist who worked mainly in France.

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Gekiga

is Japanese term for "dramatic pictures".

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Gene Day

Howard Eugene Day (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 (b. 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 CorenBirths, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales confirms subject's full name.

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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 stories).

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Hardcover

A hardcover or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as case-bound) 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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His Name Is... Savage

His Name Is...

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Histoire de M. 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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Illustrated fiction

Illustrated fiction is a hybrid narrative medium in which images and text work together to tell a story.

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It Rhymes with Lust

It Rhymes with Lust is an illustrated book, originally published in 1950, considered one of the most notable precursors of the graphic novel.

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J. M. DeMatteis

John Marc DeMatteis (born December 15, 1953), usually cited as J. M. DeMatteis, is an American writer of comic books, television and novels.

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Jack Katz (artist)

Jack Katz (born 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, writer, and editor, 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 an American comics artist and writer. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on many major superheroes. Byrne's better-known work has been on Marvel Comics' X-Men and Fantastic Four and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics' Superman franchise, the first issue of which featured comics' first variant cover. Coming into the comics profession as penciller, inker, letterer and writer on his earliest work, Byrne began co-plotting the X-Men comics during his tenure on them, and launched his writing career in earnest with Fantastic Four (where he also served as penciler and inker). During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including Next Men and Danger Unlimited. He scripted the first issues of Mike Mignola's Hellboy series and produced a number of Star Trek comics for IDW Publishing. In 2015, Byrne and his X-Men collaborator Chris Claremont were entered into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame. He is the co-creator of such Marvel characters as Kitty Pryde, Emma Frost, Sabretooth, Shadow King, Scott Lang (Ant-Man), Bishop, Omega Red and Rachel Summers.

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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 comics artist and children's book illustrator who is known for his painted artwork.

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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 syndicated cartoonist and author, who 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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Le Figaro

Le Figaro is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826 and published in Paris.

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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 sources of information and similar resources, made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing.

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Limited series (comics)

In the field of comic books, 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 couple 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.

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Lynd Ward

Lynd Kendall Ward (June 26, 1905 – June 28, 1985) was an American artist and storyteller, 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 publication, usually a periodical publication, which is printed or electronically published (sometimes referred to as an online magazine).

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Manga

are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.

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Manning Lee Stokes

Manning Lee Stokes (June 21, 1911 – January 5, 1976) was an American novelist who worked under a large number of pseudonyms.

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Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is the common name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc., formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, a publisher of American comic books and related media.

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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) was 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) was an American comic book artist who drew the costumed crimefighter Phantom Lady, among many other characters.

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Maus

Maus is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991.

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Max Ernst

Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet.

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Merriam-Webster

Merriam–Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books which is especially 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) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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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 GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer.

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Neologism

A neologism (from Greek νέο- néo-, "new" and λόγος lógos, "speech, utterance") is a relatively recent or isolated term, word, or phrase that may be in the process of entering common use, but that has not yet been fully 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 content (sometimes, in the form of a story) whose creator, in good faith, assumes responsibility for the truth or accuracy of the events, people, or information presented.

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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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Novel

A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.

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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

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 name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which can differ from their first or true name (orthonym).

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Public domain

The public domain consists of all the creative works to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.

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Publishing

Publishing is the dissemination of literature, music, or information—the activity of making information available to the general public.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines (often referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the 1950s.

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R. C. Harvey

Robert C. Harvey (born 1937), popularly known as R. C. Harvey, is an author, critic and cartoonist.

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Ray Osrin

Raymond Harold Osrin (October 5, 1928 – April 3, 2001) was an American cartoonist.

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Raymond Briggs

Raymond Redvers Briggs, CBE (born 18 January 1934) is an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author who has achieved critical and popular success among adults and children.

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Richard Corben

Richard Corben (born October 1, 1940) is an American illustrator and comic book artist best known for his comics featured in Heavy Metal magazine.

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Rick Veitch

Richard "Rick" 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 author 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.

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Russ Heath

Russell "Russ" Heath, Jr. (born September 29, 1926) is 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 (Eclipse Comics)

Sabre (subtitled Slow Fade of an Endangered Species), published in August 1978, is the title of an American graphic novel.

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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 (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, 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 Walters) is a fictional 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 that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this.

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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 the speech or thoughts of a given character in the comic.

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Spider-Man

Spider-Man is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Stan Lee

Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber, December 28, 1922) is an American comic-book writer, editor, film executive producer, actor and publisher.

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Steve Ditko

Stephen J. Ditko (born November 2, 1927) is an American comics artist and writer best known as the artist and co-creator, with Stan Lee, of the Marvel Comics superheroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange.

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Steve Gerber

Stephen Ross "Steve" Gerber (September 20, 1947 – February 10, 2008) was an American comic book writer best known for co-creating the satiric Marvel Comics character Howard the Duck and a character-defining run on Man-Thing, one of their monster properties.

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Steve Lieber

Steve Lieber (born May 19, 1967) is an American comic book illustrator known for his work on books such as Detective Comics and Hawkman, and the critically acclaimed miniseries Whiteout, which was adapted into a 2009 feature film starring Kate Beckinsale.

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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 an extended or continuing storyline in episodic storytelling media such as television, comic books, comic strips, boardgames, video games, and films with each episode following a dramatic arc.

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Strange Tales

Strange Tales is a Marvel Comics anthology series title that appeared and was revived in different forms on multiple occasions throughout the company's history.

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Superhero

A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero or Super) is a type of heroic stock character, usually possessing supernatural or superhuman powers, who is dedicated to fighting the evil of his/her universe, protecting the public, and usually battling supervillains.

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Sword and sorcery

Sword and sorcery (S&S) is a subgenre of fantasy characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent adventures.

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Tankōbon

is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series or corpus.

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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 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, 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 the name of a collection of serialized dramas, originally in 1930s pulp novels, and then in a wide variety of media, and it is also used to refer to the character featured in The Shadow media.

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The Snowman

The Snowman is a children's picture book without words by English 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 the name of several comic books and one magazine series starring Spider-Man and published by Marvel Comics.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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The Yellow Kid

The Yellow Kid was the name of a lead American comic strip character that ran 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 is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Trade paperback (comics)

In comics, a trade paperback (often shortened to trade) is a collection of stories originally published in comic books, reprinted in book format, usually capturing one story arc from a single title or a series of stories with a connected story arc or common theme.

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Underground comix

Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature.

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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 comic and artist's book by Max Ernst, first published in 1934.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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Vertigo (DC Comics)

DC Vertigo (originally simply Vertigo) is an imprint of the American comic book publisher DC Comics.

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Visual novel

A is an interactive game genre, which originated in Japan, featuring mostly static graphics, most often using anime-style art or occasionally live-action stills (and sometimes video footage).

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Walt Simonson

Walter "Walt" 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 is a person employed by a public or private enterprise to collect and remove waste (refuse) and recyclables from residential, commercial, industrial or other collection site for further processing and disposal.

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Watchmen

Watchmen is an American comic book limited series by the British creative team of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons and colorist John Higgins.

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When the Wind Blows (comics)

When the Wind Blows is a 1982 graphic novel, by British artist Raymond Briggs, that shows a nuclear attack on Britain by the Soviet Union from the viewpoint of a retired couple, Jim and Hilda Bloggs.

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Will Eisner

William Erwin "Will" 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.

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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 (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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References

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