The comics industry is healing bros.
I can feel it in my balls.
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I can feel it in my balls.
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What's the difference between a comic and a graphic novel?
Graphic novel is just a pretentious term for people who don't want to admit to reading comics.
Bigger book, sometimes stand-alone stories, other times collection of floppies.
If it has a spine, it's a graphic novel. If it doesn't, it's a [punchline goes here].
If they call it graphic novels instead of comic books they can include manga in the sales figures to maker their numbers look better.
Comics = staple stitch
Graphic Novel = perfect bound
This is a distinction made for the sake of sales charts.
Graphic novel = manga
Warms my heart
Give me the numbers without manga
Even if it is just manga growing thats still good for the industry as a whole I like to believe, better to be kept alive at with other stuff than going completly extinct.
It's only good in the sense that all of these other products - manga, toys, collectibles, tabletop games, etc - are helping to keep the LCS alive. Without the LCS, there would be no comics because no other retail segment wants them. But the inverse is not true.
I mean it wouldn't be an LCS without comics. More of an LS.
I meant that comic shops, and by extension comics, need manga and toys and games. But manga, toys, and games do not need comics and comics shops.
I'm not comparing the relative quality of these things. It's the result of how comics are sold. Nothing else is sold this way, with these kinds of terms. Which is why these sales list make a distinction between graphic novels and comics in the first place.
Fair point, but as long as the medium is around there is always a chance for a comeback for American comics
The medium is never going to die. But formats and distribution channels do.
Writing for people other thab just straight white cis males paid off.
do people actually buy like 20 different pieces of plastic?
graphic novels make 100x more sense
>easier to read/store/transport
>doesnt cumple up into a pile of shit
>actually feels like something worth money
>Let’s take a look at the Top 20 best-selling items on the 2021 chart; it looks like this:
>1 DOG MAN: MOTHERING HEIGHTS: A GRAPHIC NOVEL (DOG MAN #10) PILKEY, DAV 1,295,470
>2 cat KID COMIC CLUB: A GRAPHIC NOVEL (CAT KID COMIC CLUB #1) PILKEY, DAV 617,821
>3 DOG MAN: GRIME AND PUNISHMENT: A GRAPHIC NOVEL (DOG MAN #9) PILKEY, DAV 557,918
>4 CAT KID COMIC CLUB: PERSPECTIVES: A GRAPHIC NOVEL (CAT KID COMIC CLUB #2) PILKEY, DAV 424,094
>5 DOG MAN: FOR WHOM THE BALL ROLLS: A GRAPHIC NOVEL (DOG MAN #7) PILKEY, DAV 331,928
>6 CLAUDIA AND THE NEW GIRL: A GRAPHIC NOVEL (THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB #9) EPSTEIN, GABRIELA 313,092
>7 DOG MAN: FETCH-22: A GRAPHIC NOVEL (DOG MAN #8) PILKEY, DAV 291,461
>8 THE TWISTED ONES: AN AFK BOOK (FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S GRAPHIC NOVEL #2) CAWTHON, SCOTT 250,180
>9 WINGS OF FIRE: THE DARK SECRET: A GRAPHIC NOVEL (WINGS OF FIRE GRAPHIC NOVEL #4) SUTHERLAND, TUI T. 214,260
>10 THE SILVER EYES (FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S GRAPHIC NOVEL #1) CAWTHON, SCOTT 210,763
>11 GUTS: A GRAPHIC NOVEL TELGEMEIER, RAINA 188,937
>12 KRISTY AND THE SNOBS: A GRAPHIC NOVEL (THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB #10) CHAU, CHAN 172,402
>13 ATTACK ON TITAN 1 ISAYAMA, HAJIME 169,582
>14 MY HERO ACADEMIA, VOL. 1 HORIKOSHI, KOHEI 162,949
>15 DOG MAN: BRAWL OF THE WILD: A GRAPHIC NOVEL (DOG MAN #6) PILKEY, DAV 161,084
>16 DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA, VOL. 1 GOTOUGE, KOYOHARU 158,292
>17 DOG MAN: A GRAPHIC NOVEL (DOG MAN #1) PILKEY, DAV 154,629
>18 FGTEEV SAVES THE WORLD! FGTEEV 154,222
>19 CHAINSAW MAN, VOL. 1 FUJIMOTO, TATSUKI 150,495
>20 LOGAN LIKES MARY ANNE!: A GRAPHIC NOVEL (THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB #8) GALLIGAN, GALE 150,128
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