Emphatically medium. I mean this seems like such a weird question to me, given all the different types of works available in any medium.
I suspect people are confused by mediums having specific conventions but that's not the same as a genre.
It really wasn't until the 20th Century that they started to become available and that's when people began to call them "graphic novels" or comic book genre.
I would say it was practically until the 21st that they became known as graphic novels. My impression was that this was the period where compiled storylines began being published in book form but perhaps that was just a coincidence. I was also under the impression that this happened at the same time as manga boomed in popularity and also began being stocked in bookstores if not libraries.
Except audio books aren't classified as one, nor are DVD's or paperbacks or hard back books or electronic, or novels or short stories, or novellas, or CDs, or magazines, or journals, or periodicals -- so why comic books?
Exactly.
I find the digitial age reassurring in one major aspect -- you can get them digitally.
Yes. We have a comics store (maybe even more than one) locally and it's moved 3 times since I've been here. I remember at the time I first visited it there was heated debate about whether bookstores would put comic book shops out of business because of the compilations being sold there for more popular lines. Clearly not. We had a local independent bookstore close instead, while the B&N and the comics store are still open.
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Emphatically medium. I mean this seems like such a weird question to me, given all the different types of works available in any medium.
I suspect people are confused by mediums having specific conventions but that's not the same as a genre.
It really wasn't until the 20th Century that they started to become available and that's when people began to call them "graphic novels" or comic book genre.
I would say it was practically until the 21st that they became known as graphic novels. My impression was that this was the period where compiled storylines began being published in book form but perhaps that was just a coincidence. I was also under the impression that this happened at the same time as manga boomed in popularity and also began being stocked in bookstores if not libraries.
Except audio books aren't classified as one, nor are DVD's or paperbacks or hard back books or electronic, or novels or short stories, or novellas, or CDs, or magazines, or journals, or periodicals -- so why comic books?
Exactly.
I find the digitial age reassurring in one major aspect -- you can get them digitally.
Yes. We have a comics store (maybe even more than one) locally and it's moved 3 times since I've been here. I remember at the time I first visited it there was heated debate about whether bookstores would put comic book shops out of business because of the compilations being sold there for more popular lines. Clearly not. We had a local independent bookstore close instead, while the B&N and the comics store are still open.