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Who created the "graphic novel" originally?

In my country, the graphic novel is not a popular thing, but I like it! Actually, darling I kinda it, especially since many Hollywood flicks were based on the graphic novel will made.My favorites are "Constantine," "Sin City", "V for Vendetta "and" 300 "for instance.Well, actually, I'm a big fan of each" graphic novel-based "movie, because it is" too un-normal " … I wish I could use that word .. haha In here, there is a "special" store that sells more graphic novels, including the series, which I had mentioned above. But it is over-pricing and quite difficult to find them in the general store. Anyway, you know who was the first man "invent" a graphic novel? I think when exactly the very first graphic novel was released to the public? And Have any of you have a list of TOP is highly recommended graphic novels of all time? Plus Who do you think is the best graphic novel artist now? Alan Moore and Frank Miller? By the way, I can not wait to see the latest upcoming "graphic novel-based" movie called "meteorologist."

The term "graphic novel" began to grow in popularity two months later after it appeared on the cover of trade paperback edition (though not the hardcover edition) of Will Eisner's groundbreaking A Contract with God and other tenement Stories (October 1978). This collection of short stories was a mature, complex work focusing on lives of ordinary people in the real world, and the term "graphic novel" was intended to distinguish it from traditional comic who shared a storytelling medium. This established both a new book-publishing term and a separate category. Eisner cited Lynd Ward's 1930s woodcuts (see above) as an inspiration. They critical and commercial success of a contract with God helped create the term "graphic novel" in common use, and many sources have erroneously credited with being Eisner the first to use it. Actually, it was used as early as November 1964 by Richard Kyle in CAPA-ALPHA # 2, a newsletter published by the Comic Amateur Press Alliance, and again in Kyle's Fantasy Illustrated # 5 (Spring 1966). One of the earliest contemporary uses of the term post-Eisner came in 1979 when the Black Mark's successor – published a year after an agreement with God even written and signed in early 1970 – was called a "graphic novel" on the cover of Marvel Comics' black-white Comics Magazine Marvel Preview # 17 (Winter 1979), when the Black Mark: The Mind Demons premiered – its 117-page content intact, but its panel-layout reconfigured to fit 62 pages. Dave Sim cartoon Cerebus was launched as a funny animal Conan parody in 1977, but in 1979 Sim announced it was to be a 300-issue novel telling the hero's complete life story. In England, Bryan Talbot wrote and drew The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, described by Warren Ellis as "probably the most influential graphic novel that has come out of Britain to date" [13]. Like Sim, Talbot also began by serialising story originally nearby Myths (1978), before it was published as a three-volume graphic novel series 1982-87. Following this, Marvel from 1982-88 published Marvel Graphic Novel line of 10 "x7" trade paperbacks – although numbering them as comics from # 1 (Jim Starlin's The Death of Captain Marvel) and # 35 (Dennis O'Neil, Mike Kaluta, and Russ Heath's Hitler's Astrologer, starring the radio and the Pulp Fiction character shadows, and unique for this line, released in hardcover). Marvel commissioned original graphic novels from such creators as John Byrne, JM DeMatteis, Steve Gerber, graphic novel pioneer McGregor, Frank Miller, Bill Sienkiewicz, Walt Simonson, Charles Vess, and Bernie Wrightson. While most of these starred Marvel superheroes, others, such as Rick Veitch's Heartburst featured original SF / fantasy characters, while others yet, as John J. Muth 's Dracula, featured adaptations of literary stories or characters, and one, Sam Glanzman's A Sailor's Story, was a true-life World War II Naval story. In England, Titan Books had a license to reprint strips from 2000 AD, including Judge Dredd, beginning in 1981, and Robo-Hunter, 1982. The company also published British collections of American graphic novels – including Swamp Thing, is known to be printed in black and white instead of color, originally – and of British newspaper strips, including Modesty Blaise and Garth. Igor Gold cheek was marketing consultant who worked at Titan and moved to 2000 AD and has contributed to to spread the word "graphic novel" as a way to help sell the trade paperbacks were published. He admits that he "stole the words straight from Will Eisner "and his contribution was to" take the badge (today called a "fire") and explain it, contextualise it and sell it convincingly enough, that users bookstore, book distributors and book trade would accept a new category of "spine-fiction 'on their bookshelves." [14] Cover art for 1987 kr (for left) and UK (right) collected editions of Watchmen, published by DC Comics and Titan BooksDC Comics also began collecting series and published them in book format. Two such collections attracted considerable media attention, and they, along with Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus (1986), helped establish both the word and concept of graphical novels in the minds of the general public. These were Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986), a collection of Frank Miller's four-part comic book series featuring an older Batman confronted with problems of a dystopian future, and Watchmen (1987), a collection of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons '12-issues limited series in which Moore notes he "set out to explore, among other things, the dynamics of power in a post-Hiroshima world." [15]. also was praised Moore's V for Vendetta, produced by David Lloyd. These four works were reviewed in newspapers and magazines, and it led to such increased coverage that the headline "Comics are not just for children more" was widely considered to fans as a mainstream-press cliché. [16] Variations on the term can be seen in the Harvard Independent [17] and on Poynter Online. [18] Regardless, the mainstream coverage has led to increased sales, with Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, for example, lasting 40 weeks on a British bestseller lists development concept graphic novel is not clearly defined, and is sometimes used, controversially, to imply subjective differences in artistic quality between graphic novels and other comics. It suggests a history that has a beginning, middle and end, as opposed to an ongoing series with continuing signs of someone who is outside the genres commonly associated with comics who deal with more mature themes. It is sometimes applied to works that fit this description, even though they are serialized in traditional comic book format. The term is commonly used to separate works from the young or humorous connotations of the terms comics and comic, which implies that work is more serious, mature, or literary than traditional comics. Following this reasoning, the French term Bande dessinée is occasionally used by art historians and others schooled in the art, to separate Comics in the fine art tradition from the popular entertainment, although in the French language, the term has no such connotation and applies to all forms of comics and books. In the publishing industry, the term is sometimes extended to material that would not be considered as a novel if produced in another medium. Collections of comic books which do not form a coherent story, anthologies or collections of loosely related pieces, and even non-fiction are stocked by libraries and bookstores as "graphic novels "(similar to the way dramatic stories are included in" comic "books). It is also sometimes used to create a distinction between works created as stand-alone stories, as opposed to collections of a story arc from a comic series published in book form. [1] [2] [3] [4] The manga, which have had a much longer history with both new-style editing and production of comics for adult audiences, should be included in the expression do not always agree. Similarly, in the continental Europe, both the original book-length stories such as La Rivolta dei racchi (1967) by Guido Buzzeli [5], and collections of comic strips has been widely published in hardback, often called "albums", since the late 19th century (including Franco-Belgian comics series such as "The Adventures of Tintin" and "Lieutenant Blueberry ", and Italian series such as" Corto Maltese "). 1920s saw a revival of medieval woodcut tradition, with Belgian Frans Mase Reel often cited as the "undisputed king" (Sabin, 291) of this revival. Among Mase Reel's works were Passionate Journey (1926, reprinted in 1985 as Passionate Journey: A Novel in 165 woodcuts ISBN 0-87286-174-0). American Lynd Ward also worked in this tradition during the 1930s. Other prototypical examples from this period include American Milt Gross' He made his Wrong (1930), a wordless comic published as a hardcover book, and Une Semaine de Bonté (1934), a novel in sequential images composed of collage by the surrealist painter Max Ernst. That same year, the first European comic-strip collections, called "albums" debuted with The Adventures of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets by the Belgian Hergé. 1940s launched a Classics Illustrated, a comic book series, primarily adapted notable, public domain novels into standalone comic books for young readers. 1950s saw this format extended with popular movies are also adapted. Also during the 1940s Taro Yashima published The New Sun (1943), published Don Freeman This should not happen (1945), and Alan Dunn published East of the fifth (1948), a book that is very similar recent efforts by Will Eisner. By the 1960s, British publisher IPC had begun to produce a pocket-size comic line, "Super Library, "which played a war and spy stories told over roughly 130 pages. In 1950, St. John Publications produced the digest-size, adult-oriented" image novel "The rhymes Lust, a film noir-inspired piece steel town life starring a scheming, manipulative redhead named Rust. hailed as" an original full length novel "on the cover, the 128-page digest by pseudonymous writer" Drake Waller "(Arnold Drake and Leslie Waller), pencils Matt Baker and inker Ray Osrin proved effective enough to lead to an independent second picture novel, The Case for Blink Buddha by pulp novelist Manning Lee Stokes and illustrator C