Comic books vs. Graphic Novels

[PyroChamber]

When it comes to film adaptations, do you think that graphic novels are better adapted to film than regular comic book series are, or vice versa?

 

[November Rain]

well graphic novels of today are yes...

saying this there are some great single issue comics that would make great films.

something like the first two ultimate grapic books would make great films, however so would asm#3 all on its own....

it all comes down to the calibur of the story

 

[Spider-Fan]

GN's are easier cause the source is more limited and has a more clear vision. Comic series go through many retcons and revisions, thus they are harder.

 

[TheComicbookKid]

Graphic Novels of course. The story and character motivations are layed out exactly and isn't open to reinterpretation or choosing favorite eras.

 

[CobraCommander]

This question is pointless. Comic books ARE graphic novels. One is just sounds more grown-up and exotic, duping people who don't know any better into buying tickets to see it and not feeling guilty.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

This question is pointless. Comic books ARE graphic novels.

No, you're thinking of trade paperbacks.

 

[CobraCommander]

Trade paperbacks, graphic novels, these terms are all really different ways of saying the same thing. I know what you're getting at, so let me ask this question:

Does it matter if something was released in single issue form before being collected in a trade, or "graphic novel?"

Do you consider Watchmen a graphic novel? What about V for Vendetta, or any of the Sin City titles?

Just so we can clear up any confusion.

 

[CobraCommander]

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[Kevin Roegele]

Trade paperbacks, graphic novels, these terms are all really different ways of saying the same thing. I know what you're getting at, so let me ask this question:

Does it matter if something was released in single issue form before being collected in a trade, or "graphic novel?"

Do you consider Watchmen a graphic novel? What about V for Vendetta, or any of the Sin City titles?

Just so we can clear up any confusion.

V for Vendetta is a comic strip, originally printed in Warrior magazine. It is an episodic narrative as it was written in small parts for many issues.

Watchmen is a twelve issue comicbook series, with a story told in it's entirety thriugh those twelve issues.

Sin City is an umbrella title for lots of stories set in the same place. The stories have been comic strips, comic books and there is a graphic novel, Family Values.

 

[CobraCommander]

Yet all of those are referred to as "graphic novels" by most people.

Which is why I don't understand the difference between a "graphic novel" and a "comic book."

I suppose you mean "original graphic novel," or a complete work written and released in said format, with no monthly title preceding or supplementing it.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Yet all of those are referred to as "graphic novels" by most people.

Which is why I don't understand the difference between a "graphic novel" and a "comic book."

I suppose you mean "original graphic novel," or a complete work written and released in said format, with no monthly title preceding or supplementing it.

It's much the same as, say, The Three Musketeers. Many people would say, "That's the novel by Alexander Dumas," but it's not a novel at all. It's serial fiction, that was printed in episodes in French newspapers. Dumas not only made it up as he went, one episode at a time, but he was paid by the word, which is obvious when reading it.

Yet it's collected into a novel format, a single book, and most people have read it as such, and are unaware of it's origins. So most people would think it's a novel.

The same applies to V for Vendetta. Few people outside comicbook fans would be aware that it's a comic strip created for a 1980's English publication.