October 23, 2014 at 12:20PM
October 23, 2014 by Jerzy Drozd
Filed under Blog
"Graphic Novels," or "Comics"? It's complicated.
When comics become a species of novel — the graphic kind instead of the young adult or literary kind — it sends the message that what matters most are the words. And that couldn't be more wrong. It's a huge mistake to underemphasize the "graphic" part of graphic novels; in fact, favoring words over pictures is a good recipe for making bad comics.
+Dan Mishkin shares some good food for thought about how nomenclature, while seemingly the purview of the obsessive and nerdy, can send mixed signals to an audience.