Graphic novels

Heuet, Stephane, Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past Combray (graphic novel) (New York NBM Publishing, Inc., 2002). (An excellent comic-book approach to understanding Proust for most mortals who cannot sit through 3,000 pages.)... 

Robert Hendrickson s The Literary Life is an excellent source of anecdotes on the subject of books, authors, and publishers. Many of the Einstein quotations come from Alice Calaprice s The Expanded Quotable Einstein. Information on Marcel Proust comes from diverse sources such as Stephane Heuet s graphic novels on Proust s works, Roger Shattuck s Proust s Way, Edmund White s Marcel Proust, and Alain de Button s How Proust Can Change Your Life. Other influential books, such as those that discuss the psychoactive compound DMT and uncommon psychiatric disorders, are listed in the Further Reading section at the end of this book. 

A similar phenomenon can be observed in the graphic novel - a medium where the... 

Fig. 1.30 A frame from the graphic novel, "The Wrath of the Spectre" (reproduced with permission from DC Comics).

Susan Kim (New York) has written plays, graphic novels, children s television, and documentaries, and talks about the fundamentals of dramatic storytelling as applied to the production of the awardwinning Imaginary Witness Hollywood and the Holocaust. 

Most recently, Susan Kim and Elissa Stein published the nonfiction book Flow The Cultural Story of Menstruation (St. Martin s Press, 2009), and she and Laurence Klavan completed two graphic novels. City of Spies and Brain Camp, both of which will be published by First Second Books in 2010. 

You and Laurence Klavan have two graphic novels coming out this year, both written for middle school children. They re fiction, but one, for example, is inspired by a real-life story, the discovery of a Nazi spy ring in New York City. For documentary filmmakers whose work is sometimes compared to creative nonfiction, or nonfiction novels, the graphic novel seems like another creative model—certainly as we saw with Ari Folman s Waltz with Bashir, an animated documentary memoir. 

Some of the most successful and effective graphic novels are [grounded in] nonfiction. A lot of them are memoir. I m thinking of Palestine by foe Sacco, and Persepolis obviously has documentary elements, but it s still a memoir. And Stitches, Epileptic, A Drifting Life. They re so strongly drawn and so heightened, it s interesting for documentary filmmakers to take a look at them. They re like storyboards they re so visual. 

David Hopkins is an Associate Professor in the American Studies Department at Temi University, Nara, Japan, where he has lived and taught for thirty years. In addition to American Studies, he presents regularly on Japanese popular culture, especially music, manga and movies. He was recently pnblished in Graphic Novels in Libraries and Archives and Cinema Inferno. 

Takahashi, Shin. The Manga Guide to Statistics. San Erancisco No Starch Press, 2009. A set of introductory lessons in probability and statistics presented in the form of a graphic novel. 

In spite of the gravity of the theme and the tragedies that occur throughout the graphic novel. Barefoot Gen is a life-affirming tale. This is in no small part because of the way that Gen and the other children are portrayed. Living by their wits amid the postwar confusion, the children are far more energetic and resilient than many of the adult... 

Henry E. Schultz, "Censorship or Self Regulation Journal of Educational Sociology 23 (December 1949), 217. Sabin, Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels, 68. 

Sabin, Roger. Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels. London Phaidon, 1996. 

Comic-Con is the Super Bowl, Rose Parade, and Fourth of July of the comic book and graphic novel world, all rolled into one and served piping fresh annually in the San Diego Convention Center. See www.comic-con.org and wear comfortable shoes, because you ll be on your feet for days. 

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