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Bingham 32 Corben's, reads as follows: "BLOODSTAR is a new, revolutionary concept —a graphic novel which combines all the imagination and visual power of comic strip art with the richness of the traditional novel” (Howard). Besides Bloodstar, two other texts labeled themselves as graphic novels before Eisner's project. These were Chandler: Red Tide by Joe Steranko and Beyond Time and Again by George Metzger (Williams & Lyons xiv). Understandably, there is some confusion as to what exactly differentiates a graphic novel from a comic book. Allyson and Barry Lyga assert that the term is, “used to describe the specific format of a comic book that has greater production values and longer narrative” (162-3). Its use became widespread with the popularity of such works as Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's Watchmen. Both of these works were published in 1986 and challenged the accepted superhero formula which had been perpetuated in graphic narratives since the Golden Age of Comics. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a graphic novel is “a fulllength (esp. science fiction or fantasy) story published as a book in comic-strip format.” Often graphic novels are confused with trade paperbacks or compendiums that collect and reprint a story arc in a single edition after its previous episodic publication (Lyga & Lyga 165). These compendiums differ from graphic novels, which, according to the most precise definition, can only contain a completely self-contained story arc. This definition comes with an exception, though. As a result of colloquial indication, it's possible that graphic novels may name the often square-bound object illustrating a single story or series of related ones (ibid. 163). Metzjer's Beyond Time and Again was actually a compendium, whereas Bloodstar was a long story released as a limited edition hardbound luxury item. If we believe material construction plays significant role in determining
Bingham 33 what is or isn't a graphic novel, this distinction would name Howard and Corben as the premier creators of the literary canon's first true graphic novel. If the determining factor of what constitutes being a graphic novel is simply linked to presentation, Miller's Dark Knight and Moore and Gibbon's Watchmen are only really graphic novels if their readers are unfamiliar with origins of the narratives. However, each of these understandings of meaning are publicly recognized as accurate and accepted colloquially. In the future though, changing misconstrued ideas into certain knowledge can occur only when facts are confirmed and our future references to them continue to be correct. Otherwise, all other arguments will be inherently flawed. Hillary Chute elaborates: “In graphic narrative, the substantial length implied by novel remains intact, but the term shifts to accommodate modes other than fiction. A graphic narrative is a book-length work in the medium of comics” (453). Accounting for historically inspired or autobiographically constructed works, this definition more accurately describes works like Art Spiegelman's Maus or Emmanuel Guilbert's The Photographer, which is a graphic narrative that incorporates photographs as well as illustrations. Though the works I look at in detail within the remaining two chapters are not graphic novels according to these standards, the assembly and reprinting of multiple issues within collected volumes as well as their highly developed content make both The Walking Dead and Saga of the Swamp Thing conceivably worthy of the designation.
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