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This year’s list of top non-manga graphic novels, memoirs and nonfiction for adult readers represents a broad range of styles, visions and narrative perspectives.
—Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
This captivating graphic novel tells the story of Rocio, a young woman who inherits her late grandmother Vilma’s house.
—Roxsy Lin, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Based on the graphic novel by Richard McGuire, the film is written by Zemeckis and Forrest Gump screenwriter Eric Roth.
Also starring Paul Bettany, Kelly Reilly and Michelle Dockery, the Miramax and ImageMovers film is produced by Zemeckis, Derek Hogue, Jack Rapke and Bill Block.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 15 Dec. 2024
Dahmer's combination of serial killing, necrophilia and cannibalism has fascinated true crime fans for decades, inspiring the graphic novel and film My Friend Dahmer starring Ross Lynch and Ryan Murphy's series Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story starring Evan Peters.
—Jessica Sager, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
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First Known Use
1964, in the meaning defined above
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“Graphic novel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/graphic%20novel. Accessed 10 Jan. 2025.
Kids Definition
graphic novel
noun
: a work of fiction or non-fiction that is presented in comic-strip format and published as a book
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