Is there a difference between "Comic Book" and "Graphic Novel?"

Is there a difference between "Comic Book" and "Graphic Novel?"

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Graphic Novels cost more money.

To a creator? Yes.
To a purchaser? No.
To a publisher? Maybe.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_novel
> It is distinguished from the term "comic book", which is generally used for comics periodicals.

> In the publishing trade, the term extends to material that would not be considered a novel if produced in another medium.[citation needed] Collections of comic books that do not form a continuous story, anthologies or collections of loosely related pieces, and even non-fiction are stocked by libraries and bookstores as "graphic novels" (similar to the manner in which dramatic stories are included in "comic" books).[citation needed] The term is also sometimes used to distinguish between works created as standalone stories, in contrast to collections or compilations of a story arc from a comic book series published in book form.[5][6][7]

tl;dr they have more pages

Graphic novels are long-form comic books published as a single book rather than serialized over a period of time. The Death of Captain Marvel, for example, is a graphic novel, as it was published in one sitting instead of over several months.
A lot of the confusion stems from trade paperbacks, which are collections of single monthly issues (AKA "floppies") published as just one book. Publishers like DC and Marvel like to call these "graphic novels" instead of TPB's, usually to make them sound more adult and appealing to a mass public (which is how the term was coined in the first place by Will Eisner for "A Contract With God"). So Watchmen, for example, is not techcnically a graphic novel, since it was originally serialized in monthly issues before being collected in a TPB.
Of course, these definitions can vary and fluctuate a bit depending on the person and publisher. A lot of people would argue that evne if it's not technically a graphic novel, Watchmen's chapter structure and reprint history have effectively turned it into one. Likewise, if we go just by what publishers tell us, then pretty much all TPBs are graphic novels.
Ultimately, graphic novels are comic books, but not all comic books are graphic novels, since "comic books" refers to the medium as a whole instead of a particular publishing model.

A graphic novel is what creators call their works when they want to feel more important, and what young teachers call them when they try to get them added to school libraries.

Comic books are what they actually are.

Graphic novels are a type of comic book.

Floppies, Trade Paperbacks, and Graphic Novels are classifiably different forms, but they are all comic books.

there is supposed to be but it mostly gets ignored in practice by a bunch of illiterate gnob goblins.

A graphic novel is supposed to be published as a complete book. Things like God Loves Man Kills would be considered a graphic novel since it was one published story, not a series of loose issues collected into a trade.

The word has lost all meaning though, and it's just become a label to slap on things to make them sound more important or pretentious.

It's a term that cowards like are afraid to use because they're secretly ashamed of their own reading habits.

comic books are funny
graphic novels are serious business

case closed

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Alright this is an important question, anyone have more screenshots of jessie's underboob?

Deep down, no.

It's just good marketing of making a new word so your product is attached with the mental image a game can have.
"It's not a doll, it's an action figure."
"It's not propaganda, it's public relations."
"It's not a comic, it's a graphic novel."

Cause really when people say comic book people probably imagine a magazine filled with campy nonsense to the sense of Silverage comics, Archie comics, or 70s tame horror comics, that are meant to have the target demographic be elementary school kids.
And so they call it a graphic novel and make it seem like a separate thing that can be marketed at the older audience they're shooting for.

Isn't* attached with the mental image a name* can have.
Fuck

These days it's just a catch-all term for long-form stories collected or published as a single book.
The term comic book can apply to things like floppies or magazines as well. Graphic Novel is a bit more specific.

Thanks, Judge user!

>they have more pages
Retarded

This is the closest thing to correct.

This is also true

a woman who is a victim of her own beauty
an aristocrat denied his nobility
and a forgotten intellectual

committing the evils of truth and love upon this dark world!

Reminder that Jessie with her hair down is a fucking goddess.

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