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These types of video games play out more like a graphic novel, versus the shoot-’em-up style games many people associate with the pastime.
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Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appétit, 1 Dec. 2024
Bendis, who teaches comics at Portland State University, also found time to contribute to the booming YA graphic novel scene with a series called Phenomena drawn by André Lima Araújo, from Abrams.
—Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
David Prior 20th Century Fox had absolutely no idea what to do with David Prior’s adaptation of the graphic novel of the same name, and so quietly shuttled it into theaters and then VOD.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
Popular on Variety The toon is inspired by the graphic novel ‘Winnipeg, the Ship of Neruda’ by Spain’s Laura Martel, who spent years researching the ship’s history and interviewing survivors who reached Valparaíso just a day before the outbreak of World War II.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024
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Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appétit, 1 Dec. 2024
Bendis, who teaches comics at Portland State University, also found time to contribute to the booming YA graphic novel scene with a series called Phenomena drawn by André Lima Araújo, from Abrams.
—Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
David Prior 20th Century Fox had absolutely no idea what to do with David Prior’s adaptation of the graphic novel of the same name, and so quietly shuttled it into theaters and then VOD.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
Popular on Variety The toon is inspired by the graphic novel ‘Winnipeg, the Ship of Neruda’ by Spain’s Laura Martel, who spent years researching the ship’s history and interviewing survivors who reached Valparaíso just a day before the outbreak of World War II.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Graphic novel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graphic%20novel. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.
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