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Hedda Tillmon
So i read this comic around 2-3 years ago on tapas and it was the comic that made me buy ink(coins back then) for the first time. I have like 3 tapas accounts i used back then because i had way too much comics in my library and it was getting hard to sort them in one account. But now i searched all of them but still couldn't find the series...
It was about a guy who played a child raising game that is like ''Princess Maker'' series. But the catch is that he played the game in virtual reality capsule thing and couldn't get out of game so he was stuck with having to complete the game in hopes for finding his way out.
The child he was raising was a dragon baby(in a human kid form). It was a very wholesome and cute comic. I read up to first season then the second season never really came...
Meanwhile i took a break from tapas because my reading addiction was getting in the way of my studies.
Now that i'm kinda free i wanted to re-read the series(and see if the second season come) but i can't find it. And i also can't remember the name. I think it probably had the word 'child' in it but i'm not sure.
So yeah if anyone can remeber the name of the series i would be really grateful
Yes this is it ! thank you so much for the help ;u; !
but i also can't open the series like others it says 'Sorry, this series is no longer available. It has been removed by its owner.'
It's such a shame because this was a comic that i unlocked all of it's chapters...
I can still read them but the only way to reach them is via ink transaction history.
Oh and i just tried the links with the account i unlocked the chapters logged in and it directed me to comic page instead of the usual 'sorry it's not available' page.
How would you define the difference between two? Some people treat GN as "more grown up" version of a comic, where characters are not flying around beating bad guys while wearing their undies on top of their pants (Kinda like difference between "animation" and "cartoon"... "animation" is regal and an art form, "cartoon" is kiddie stuff), others treat them as synonims, some I heard distinct them by the amount of humor: comic - means comical, means should be funny. Not funny - not comic.
Then there's my own country local opinion on comics, that they would gain more value if the paper used in printing would instead be used to make toilet paper, which gives promotional reason to label your creation a neutral "graphic novel" instead of rubbish "comic".
Where do you stand among all that? Until I started to dig in all of that stuff, I honestly thought that "graphic novel" basically meant "a novel with pictures", like japanese ranobe. So it is weird for me to call some comics "graphical novels", but on the other hand I find issue of popular opinion "all comics are stupid superhero bullshit for juveniles" to be understandable as well. And, well, most superhero genre works is stupid bullshit, if we'll be honest here for a second.
Well, we all know that there is no clear definition =) No one knows. You can go anywhere to read different writers and comics creators opinions on this. Some say it's just a pretentious name, some say don't you dare to compare your comics with my graphic novels for adults. This is not the readers problem only.
Technically, graphic novel is a whole story published as a book (like, in a hardcover), not those monthly comic releases of 30 pages. In Japan these are tankobon. But these all are comics nonetheless.
The difference in graphic novels and comics is pretty simple. a graphic novel is part of an overarching plot that has a beginning middle and end. Once that flow from one story to the next simply make it a series, much like how Chronicles of Narnia is a series but each individual book is its own novel, telling it's own particular arch in the overall story. This also includes Manga, though that is considered a subgenera from Japan with it's own design and story telling element that are commonly used.
Overall a comic would mean a medium the uses pictures to make you laugh with the old school definition. This definition never really left us so for most folks a comic generally has no overall plot and it rarely matters if you read things out of order. Examples include things like Garfield and Dilbert. Comic books, nowadays, get a little messy with this definition as they used to be fairly stand alone and you could pick one up in the middle and not miss much. However, many are now being made with the idea they will be turned into a full graphic novel and resold once the story is done. Those comic books could probably be considered future graphic novels. I feel I should note, there are non fiction comics that teach kids about concepts (like where babies come from!) and at least in the library community, it's felt they count just as normal books rather than graphic novels because they don't tell a story, but teach you about a topic.
The maturity level of the content has nothing to do with if it is a graphic novel or comic. Going back to Narnia for a moment, it's not more of a novel than Dairy of a Wimpy Kid because it's for a more mature audience. It is simply made for a older audience than Dairy of a Wimpy Kid. A great example of a graphic novel for young readers is Owly. It is a cartoony, wordless, "comic". But it does tell a story from beginning to end. It was designed for children who can't read yet and want a graphic novel to read. The stories it tells also can affect the behavior and choices of the other characters. This was a hot issue at libraries when graphic novels came out as anything that was in the comic style was put next to Garfield and Peanuts. This led to an overall definition, similar to the one I stated, being used to separate them out of the non fiction comic section and into it's own section in the age approbate fiction section.
Yeah, that's my opinion on graphic novels, too. For me, it's the comic alternative of a novel (one huge book from start to finish instead of the one chapter = one book and any other comic book options). I didn't know it's such a complex topic. Interesting...
but comics, small c, or comicbooks can refer to serialised floppies - 20 pages every month. the key element is that theyre shorter and serialised - webcomics, also comics, bc serialised in short bites
iirc the term graphic novel was coined by will eisner, and it was about elevating the medium of comics above the lowbrow reputation of the word. but it pisses me off when non-comic friends will refer to my webcomic work as graphic novels - THATS NOT THE FORMAT! YOU JUST THINK THE WORD COMICS IS INSULTING! ITS NOT!
i think this is talked abt in reinventing comics? ive defo read abt it - its a bit of a marketing ploy by the publishing houses. in essence those reprints arent graphic novels any more than a GoT boxset is a movie, but once the term gained traction and respect it became clear to publishers of serialised comics that slapping the term 'graphic novel' on their collected volumes added a certain gravitas
I always thought that "comics" is just a bit more wide term than "graphical novels". I.e. that not all comics are graphical novels, but all graphical novels are comics.
Particularly, comics can be with plot or without it, short or long, while graphical novel should always have a plot and should consist of, at least, several pages. For example, I think that short funny strips like Sarah's scribbles are certainly comics, but not graphic novel. While "Sin City" is both the comics and graphic novel.
I'd say graphic novel usually means it's a much longer piece, usually self contained and with more socially meaningful ideas explored within it. For example, Watchmen is a super hero graphic novel. Batman Knightfall is a super hero comic. Technically they're the same genre and the same kind of thing. But there's key distinctions.
Watchmen is a great big book and it deals with what it means to be human and how no one is ever a fully good, true blue 'hero'. I've taken classes and written essays about Watchmen.
Batman Knightfall is a collected series of issues that mostly focus on Batman getting his back broken by Bane. It's just one arc in fifty billion about Batman, you can't do much to disrupt the status quo of the established millieu because it's a massive franchise and it needs to stay mostly neutral by the end of each story to keep going and making money. It's focused more on the exploration of a character concept and what it means within the context of Batman than a greater social issue. The story serves the character, not the characters serve the story.
1) One of format, having less to do with a clear beginning, middle and end structure and more to do with being published a certain way. A Graphic Novel is a longer book, usually printed in better conditions, published as such. The format does make the start/middle/end structure easier, though, if not even somewhat logical.
I wouldn't consider most tpb collections as Graphic Novels, but they sure can be repackaged and remembered as such. A good example of this is the recent ''Bad Weekend'', by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, to be released in July. It's a new packaging of a two-issue story arc published in their monthly comic ''Criminal'', which was so well received they are republishing it as a GN, mixing both issues and adding extra content in one package.
2) A publicity stunt. As with any art form, comics had (and still have, in a way) to struggle to assert itself as art of value. The easier way to do something like this is to ape on an already established art form, therefore begins the ''Graphic Novel''. It's just like literature! Look how mature we can be!! This evolved a little, with the GN being more a format now than before, but the ugly stigma of the word ''comics'' still applies today to some people, so from a marketing standpoint it sure makes more sense to use Graphic Novel as a term.
In my experience, "graphic novel" is used by creators who don't want to call their stuff "comics" because it sounds too childish. But as far as I'm concerned, if it's a story told in pictures with word bubbles and whatnot, it's a comic.
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