Comic book

A comic book is a magazine or book containing the sequential art in the form of a narrative. Comic books are often called comics for short. Although the term implies otherwise, the subject matter in comic books is not necessarily humorous, and in fact its dramatic seriousness varies widely. The term "comics" in this context does not refer to comic strips (such as Peanuts or Dilbert).

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Magazine - Book - Sequential art - Narrative - Comics - Comic strip - Peanuts - Dilbert

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The earliest comic books were simply collections of comic strips that had originally been printed in newspapers. The commercial success of these collections led to work being created specifically for the comic-book form, which fostered specific conventions such as splash pages. Long-form comic books, generally with hardcover or trade-paper binding, are called graphic novels. Like jazz and a handful of other cultural artifacts, comic books are a rare indigenous American art form, http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=36;t=004133 http://www.disinfotainmenttoday.com/darenet/comicbook.htm though prototypical examples of the form exist.

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Newspaper - Splash page - Graphic novel - Jazz

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American comic books have become closely associated with the superhero genre. In the U.K., the term comic book is used to refer to American comic books by their readers and collectors, while the general populace would mainly consider a comic book a hardcover book collecting comics stories. The analogous term in the United Kingdom is a comic, short for comic paper or comic magazine.

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American comic book - Superhero - Genre - Comic

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