/lit/ - Literature

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>>9354229
>It’s a marketing term. I mean, it was one that I never had any sympathy with. The term “comic” does just as well for me. The term “graphic novel” was something that was thought up in the ’80s by marketing people and there was a guy called Bill Spicer who used to do a brilliant fanzine back in the sixties called Graphic Story Magazine. He came up with the term “graphic story”. That’s got something to recommend it, you know, I can see “graphic story” if you need it to call it something but the thing that happened in the mid-’80s was that there were a couple of things out there that you could just about call a novel. You could just about call Maus a novel, you could probably just about call Watchmen a novel, in terms of density, structure, size, scale, seriousness of theme, stuff like that. The problem is that “graphic novel” just came to mean “expensive comic book” and so what you’d get is people like DC Comics or Marvel comics – because “graphic novels” were ge
tting some attention, they’d stick six issues of whatever worthless piece of crap they happened to be publishing lately under a glossy cover and call it The She-Hulk Graphic Novel, you know? It was that that I think tended to destroy any progress that comics might have made in the mid-’80s.

>>9005936
>born in the slums of Northampton
>kicked out of school for dealing LSD
>revolutionizes comics, then gets bored of comics industry and tells it to fuck off
>constantly ripped off by hacks
>ceremonial magician and William Blake enthusiast
>claims to have met characters he created IRL
>worships a puppet to emphasize how much he loves the human imagination
>writes 1200-page novel about one square mile of his hometown
>also paints, sings, does spoken-word pieces, and sometimes dresses up like a mandrill
>moving into poetry next

>>8934220
Nah. He is pretty good though.