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Sat 11 Nov 2007Getting serious about comics
Graphic NovelsTwice in my life I have had complete strangers come up to me in public and tell me that I am "too old" to be reading comics.
This hasn't happened recently: as Douglas Wolk says at the beginning of Reading Comics, "It is no longer news that comics have grown up." Graphic novels are reviewed in national newspapers and granted prestigious awards; the New Yorker and the Guardian print short graphic stories; ordinary bookshops stock graphic novels in their own sections rather than (as was once common) shunting them into the sci-fi or humour shelves.
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