Today's word for Manic Monday is Graphic. Lots of ways this word could be used, but I'm going for the term Graphic Novel.
Published in 1971 Blackmark was a science fiction/fantasy story by Archie Goodwin and Gil Kane. This was published as a paperback original and some site this as the first American graphic novel.
Published in 1978 and created by Will Eisner A Contract with God is one of the earliest graphic novels. Eisner would go on to help carve a place for the graphic novel in the comic book medium.
Another early graphic novel was The First Kingdom by Jack Katz. It was originally published as individual issues and later collected into a collection of trade paperbacks in the mid 1970s.
Sabre by Don McGregor and Paul Gulacy was published in 1978 as the first graphic novel in the newly created Direct Market Sales.
Dave Sim wrote and drew 300 issues of Cerebus the Aardvark and collected the stories in multiple volumes, telling the life story of the earth pig as one long graphic novel.
One of the most important graphic novels to be published was Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.
Heartbreak Soup was by Gilbert Hernandez and published in Love and Rockets. The story is set in the fictional village of Palomar in Central American and his writing has been compared to the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Pride of Baghdad is a more recent addition to the line of graphic novels. It is by Brian Vaughn and Niko Henrichon. It is based on a true event when four lions escaped from the Baghdad Zoo during the American attack on the city.
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Thanks for the history. I enjoy a graphic novel every so often.
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