Citation information for the book can be found on the catalog record for the book that you will see when you click on the image of the book below. This book cover image (left) is Will Eisner's A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories: A Graphic Novel.Īll of these quotes explaining what a graphic novel is came from the book, Developing and Promoting Graphic Novel Collections, below, that we have a copy of at Alkek Library (page numbers for the quotes are in the parentheses). Known as the 'father of American graphic novels,' Eisner was the first to coin the term sequential art to describe to describe comics" (Miller 3). "In 1985, Will Eisner, one of the first creators of graphic novels, wrote Comics and Sequential Art. "Graphic novels (often abbreviated GNs) can be seen as the natural evolution of comic books" (Miller 2). "Whether a collection of reprinted comic books or an original story, the result is a long story told in comic art: a graphic novel" (Miller 2). "Graphic novels are stories told in a comics format that express a continuous tale" (Miller 2).
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