The Mullins Library – Storyteller Without Words
Instead of making videos, I’m trying out doing The Mullins Library as a slideshow. Videos are fun, but take a long time to create and I’m more familiar with putting together slideshows. Also, I can ...
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The Prehistory of the Graphic Novel – Revised
Based on some suggestions via Twitter and email, here is an updated list of books that could be classified as graphic novels, but that were published before the term was coined. Special thanks to Steve ...
The Prehistory of the Graphic Novel
Whatever the term “graphic novel” actually means, it is one that rose to mainstream use in the 1980s. But most people seem to agree that the term was first applied in 1978 to Will Eisner’s ...
An alternative history of graphic novels
The common history of graphic novels, and the one I learned, follows comics aimed mainly at children and the publishers who made them. We hear about the rise and fall of EC, the birth of ...