Comments on: Graphic Novels Challenge

By: Rebecca Reid

Rebecca Reid — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:20:58 +0000

@Eva: I know there aren’t challenge police, but as a perfectionist, I don’t like saying I’ll do things that I don’t intend to finish….Just my own internal policing system, I guess.

@dew: thanks so much for the recommendation–I just read Nymeth’s post that “graphic novels” aren’t a genre so much as a medium, which I hadn’t really realized–I look forward to finding those in my genre preferences. I may send you an email.

By: Acquisitions… « A Striped Armchair

Acquisitions… « A Striped Armchair — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:30:31 +0000

[...] soft-core pornography!! I never mentioned this before, because it seems just too embarassing, but Rebecca just admitted she thought the same thing. Anyway, I didn’t join at the beginning of the year because I’d been traumatised by [...]

By: dew

dew — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:28:06 +0000

I hate the term graphic novel for this very reason! I think visual novel or even illustrated novel would be better. The term graphic memoir is even worse! You think you’re going to read the story of someone’s sex life or something.

If you’d like some recommendations, please feel free to email me and tell me about your tastes, and I’ll recommend a couple. I see you have a big History tag in your category cloud, so I bet you’d love Maus and Maus II (best bought together, I think, in a book called something like The Complete Maus).

By: Eva

Eva — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:25:41 +0000

That is EXACTLY what I thought graphic novels were for YEARS. I’m so glad I’m not alone!!

I’m going to join the graphic novel challenge too. But unlike you, I love participating in challenges, because I get to research and draw up book lists, often on topics I wouldn’t have explored on my own. I don’t worry too much about the obligation part: there aren’t any challenge police!