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Comics v. Graphic Novels?

Posted by The Discriminating Fangirl  Published in Comics, Commentary

I’m taking a summer class on multi-cultural comics, and that (along with a rather heated discussion in a children’s lit class last spring) got me thinking about labels for this particular form of media.
Do we call ‘em comics or graphic novels?
When I was first introduced to the concept of graphic novels, the term was used [...]

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