What's the difference between a comic book and a graphic novel?

Alan Moore:
"It's a marketing term ... that I never had any sympathy with. The term 'comic' does just as well for me. ... The problem is that 'graphic novel' just came to mean 'expensive comic book' and so what you'd get is people like DC Comics or Marvel comics — because 'graphic novels' were getting some attention, they'd stick six issues of whatever worthless piece of crap they happened to be publishing lately under a glossy cover and call it The She-Hulk Graphic Novel...."

Robin Williams:
Is that a comic book? No! It's a graphic novel! Is that porn? No! It's adult entertainment!

Douglas Wolk:
What's the difference between "comics" and "graphic novels"?' My answer: 'The binding.'

Jeff Smith:
'Graphic novel'... I don't like that name. It's trying too hard. It is a comic book.

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So yeah buddy.. Just because Alan Moore did it doesn't make it a whole different thing, maybe an awesome comic book but a comic book nonetheless.

Here's something for myself and all of us homo sapiens sapiens.

Stop worshipping people. Just because someone is a bit different from the other doesn't make them high and mighty. The same goes for that bloke that looks the same as the rest. That doesn't make him fake.

It's what inside man.. It's what up there. Out here is just the facade you and I put up to motivate people to perceive us in a particular way.

So yeah, instead of arguing what label to slap on that Alan Moore's work, why don't we flip it open and figure out what he wanted to say.

The same goes for us, each other in real life.

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Published:
Monday, June 01, 2009
by amerhadiazmi