Thread: This is probably the reason why there are so few readers out there
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Old 12-05-2010, 11:23 AM   #108
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe View Post
Maybe so. I tend to use the words "comics" and "graphic novels" interchangeably. Just now I put the phrase "graphic novel" into the search engine of one of our local libraries and it returned quite a few hits.

http://elibrary.chesapeake.lib.va.us...&submit=Search
oh, see, I don't and I have a feeling that the others who are saying "comics aren't books" don't either. I'm sure you remember the comics that would be sold by the cash registers alongside the magazines that were maybe 5 or 10 cents each? sometimes you would even get a bag of 5 or 6 for a quarter, and that was kind of a crap shoot... you could see the one in the front but never knew what else you were getting.

so it does appear that it is indeed an issue of semantics?

edit: dictionary.com is only a little bit of help:
graphic novel 
–noun
a novel in the form of comic strips.
Origin:
1985–90
comic book 
–noun
a magazine with one or more comic strips.
Also called comic, funny book.

Origin:
1940–45
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