1. Background Information
Graphic Novels
Background Information

2. Learning Targets I can…. Explore Graphic Novels as a literary genre
Understand the Elements of a Graphic Novel
Find connections between literature, self and other cultures

4. Basically, Graphic novels are book-length comics
Basically, Graphic novels are book-length comics. Sometimes Graphic novels tell a single, continuous narrative from first page to last; sometimes they are collections of shorter stories or individual comic strips. The art is "sequential" and reading of both visuals and text together requires several different skills.

5. Graphic novels first appealed to the comic book readers of the 40's, 50's, and 60's. In the late 90's and early in 2000's it became popular with teens. It is currently the fastest growing literary genre.

6. Most comic historians agree that the first graphic novel was Will Eisner’s A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories published in It was Art Spiegelman's work, Maus, which popularized the term "graphic novel."

7. Manga is the Japanese word for comics.
Japanese comics are distinctive because they read right to left and from the back of the book to the front cover.
These are some of the most popular books in our Graphic collection! In fact, they are checked out on a daily basis.

9. Popular Authors Art Spiegelman- won a Pulitizer for Maus.
Will Eisner - "father" of the genre
Marjane Satrapi - female graphic novelist, her book tops many "best" lists (Persepolis)
Japanese authors
Art Spiegelman- won a Pulitizer for Maus.
Frank Miller - film-noir style, Batman, Sin City
Alan Moore- "one of the great fiction minds of his generation,..." Rolling Stone (V is for Vendetta, Watchmen)

10. Let’s Check some Out!!

11. Elements of a Novel
Character
Setting
Plot
Scene
Point of View

12. Elements of a Graphic Novel
Panels
Panel borders or Frame
Gutters
Caption Box
Word / Thought Balloons
Sound Effects/motion lines
Bleed
Foreground
Midground
Background
Graphic weight

13. Border
Sound effect
Motion Lines
Thought

14. Text + Graphics = Graphic Novel
The graphic aspect is visual language; symbols that convey thought, feelings, mood, time, action, movement, etc.

15. Motion Lines A. B.
= Smoke
= Odor
= Movement C.

16. Bleeds

18. Word and Thought Balloons/Bubbles

19. How to Read a GN

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