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February 19, 2009 15:23

Thanks to a good tip from Pellucidar, the types “Graphic novel” and
“Trade paperback (TPB)” have been added. It is incomprehensible that especially graphic novel was not actually there yet. I understood that these are sometimes mistakenly provided with the sort of graphic novel. That is not the intention. With graphic novels are meant the Dick Bos-like booklets.

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July 25, 2011 23:43

When is an item a Graphic Novel or an Album?

Are there definitions or examples for what is / is not a GN?

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July 26, 2011 00:37

Graphic Novel is subjective and should always be added as a second kind, just like manga.

A manga and a graphic novel can be an album, pocket etc ...
Shouldn't have been added as a kind, because they refer to the content, not the form. There is already a lot of mutation going on to turn them into genres (sub-types) at some point.

We had many more of those kinds (religion, amateur, etc ...) and they have already disappeared. To return as a genre later.

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July 26, 2011 00:44

An item is a graphic novel if at least one of the following conditions is met:

1) It says Graphic Novel with cool (n?) Letters because the publisher thinks and hopes that people will dare to put it on the coffee table when visitors come.

2) It's actually a comic, but printed on decent paper and there are no staples. It is preferably in a slightly larger size to prevent someone from accidentally calling it a Trade Paperback.

As far as I'm concerned Graphic Novels are 50% TPBs, smoked in the hot air of literary pretension, and 50% just the American version of what we would call an album and the French a BD. An unnecessary concept within Catawiki. But I am aware that I am on quite a bit of long toes with that.

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July 26, 2011 08:11

OK, it's clear.

Then why not remove the Graphic Novel type from the database and replace it with Album where necessary? I would like to help with this.
Or do you run into the problem of not recognizing them later to turn them into a genre?

I have only recently come across the term TPB, is it a description of it?
By the way, is it an idea to give a description (per species) of what is meant by a species?

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July 26, 2011 09:06

The TPB is (in comics) in its purest form a collection of previously released comics, giving you a complete story in one band. Real TPBs are therefore always reprints. They are soft covers and have the size of the original comic series, but of course thicker. Usually, but not always, a higher quality paper is used.

A real Trade Paperback contains (both comics and books) always previously published material.
But nowadays you also see that the term is misused for longer comic stories that are released directly in the way of the TPB (thicker, better paper, glued instead of stapled), without the story being published in parts in a classic comic series.

If it were up to me, the term TPB will remain reserved within Catawiki for the pure form. In Comics this is therefore a collection of parts previously released in a series of comics.

For the sake of completeness, with 'real' books, a TPB is the softcover version of a book that was previously published in Hardcover, where the form and content (except for the cheaper soft cover) are basically completely identical.

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July 26, 2011 10:01

@pegag

I think that that concept may also apply to the great heap, the americans were suddenly confronted with something they had never seen before, it was not a comic, but what it was. That we here in Europe had been familiar with this for centuries, oh who had ever heard of it in America. Just that term, we've called it an Album for a long time.

Why for example should we call "A contract with God" a graphic novel and the translated version "A contract with God" the Dutch name (whatever that may be :-))

Or compare the albums that Moebius has released in America, they are suddenly called Graphic Novel there and BD in France and Album in the Netherlands ......

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Hello Friends,

But then we simply call it Album

MVG

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July 26, 2011 22:39

Totally agree. A graphic novel is a story in comic form, just like any other comic book. It is hyped by the brache, but that will only be temporary is my expectation.

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August 02, 2011 11:43

The conclusion is that from now on we will no longer use a Graphic novel, not even as an extra next to Album?

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August 02, 2011 12:15

The problem remains who will determine whether something can be called a graphic novel. In other words: as far as I am concerned, it is subjective non-information that does not belong in a catalog.

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August 02, 2011 12:43

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striproman

Since they have been released since 1975 to the present, it is certainly not a hype.

To distinguish and prevent placement with other species, it was decided at the time to include Graphic Novel (Graphic Novel) and TPB (bundling of multiple comics, often 1 story) in Catawiki as a stand-alone type.

Publishers worldwide have given the name Graphic Novel themselves. It cannot be compared with the classic European "puppets" album strip or classic comics, namely different drawn content, different form.

E.g. a "Contract with God" by Will Eisner has been published in book form (sc / hc), as a comic book novel. That is not a kind of album, pocket etc. hence the name Graphic Novel. As has already been noted elsewhere; in 9 out of 10 times it is also simply on the issue itself, say, just like some albums comic album or pockets (strip) pocket . Names such as a comic book or literary novel are also widely used to indicate that it is a Graphic Novel.

The Wordt Vervolgd series of novels (Pratt, Manara) by Casterman are also Grapfic Novels but then released in album form, in addition to Graphic Novel, the album type can / also be used, there are more releases where 2 types apply.

The current (anno 2011) Graphic Novel is almost always published in book form in both sc and hc. The name "album" by "a blanket of snow" by Craig Thompson puts people on the wrong track, because they are not albums in the sense of what you would normally call an album (A4). Hence the choice at the time to use the publisher's name "Graphic Novel" for this.

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since the americans had only been confronted with a comic form since 1975 that they did not know before, but we have been since the war, they had to give it another name instead of comic. They chose Graphic novel because they thought it best suited the form. We in Europe had already had the name BD, or Album, for 35-40 years, nothing wrong with that, but those Americans didn't know it. Now we think: gosh, those Americans they have something new, a graphic novel, must be something different than a comic strip album. Whether Van 't Reve's De evenings should suddenly be called a Graphic Novel because those Americans would do the same. I think it is nonsense to simply adopt what the Americans came up with years later than we did for the same event.

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August 02, 2011 13:08

Graphic Novel refers - if you want to use it at all - to the content of a book, not to the form. So does not fall under Type, but at most under Genre.
Since more and more comics are published in 'novel form', it is worth considering adding the extra types of 'Bound book' and 'Paperback' for the intermediate formats in addition to 'Pocket', as is already the case with the Books section. is.

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Sorry to get into this discussion a little late, but I think that on reflection we have to conclude that Graphic novel is not really workable as a term within the types in the comics section because it does not say anything about the form in which it was published (as it does more species that we had at the time as religious, etc.) It does indeed seem best not to use this species anymore. TPBs do have a characteristic form, as pegag also indicates, and as far as I am concerned, that can be maintained as a form.

On adding new types: bound book seems potentially confusing to me with hardcover (although that is indicated in another field, cover, though).

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