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Hescher, Achim. "Analyzing Graphic Novels in Terms of Complexity: A Typology." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 60. (2012): 335–60. Added by: joachim (1/26/14, 11:32 PM) Last edited by: joachim (12/17/14, 3:25 PM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1515/zaa.2012.60.4.335 BibTeX citation key: Hescher2012 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Definition, Format, Genre Creators: Hescher Collection: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik |
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Several attributes have been used to label or legitimize the graphic novel as a relative of the comic book family. However, as single attributes, they are generally too blurry to cogently categorize certain long-form graphic works. The attribute ‘complexity’ bears enough potential to do so in the form of a typology, a graph functioning on two axes: horizontally, through a scalar continuum with the traditional (and possibly lengthy) comic book on the one extreme end and the graphic novel on the other; vertically, through a total of seven parameters which represent single aspects specifying graphic works by degree. Such a typology allows exclusive category assignments (e.g. ‘graphic novel and not comic book’) as well as differentiating assessments (‘rather/not a traditional comic book/graphic novel’).
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