Does anyone still read Graphic Novels?

[Boba Frag]

Last year, I've read the following:
The Watchen
V for Vendatta
The Sandman series
Maus

It was a mindblowing year, to say the least. I wish this year was nicer to me, at least in monetary terms, I'd love to dive deeper into graphic novels, but I just don't have the money to do so.

Yes to everything here except Maus (my brother has it, I shall borrow it soon) and V for Vendetta..

I salute, applaud and embrace you for you choice of the Sandman series.

See you on Hobson's Green

 

[Boba Frag]

Last year, I've read the following:
The Watchen
V for Vendatta
The Sandman series
Maus

It was a mindblowing year, to say the least. I wish this year was nicer to me, at least in monetary terms, I'd love to dive deeper into graphic novels, but I just don't have the money to do so.

Yes to everything here except Maus (my brother has it, I shall borrow it soon) and V for Vendetta..

I salute, applaud and embrace you for you choice of the Sandman series.

See you on Hobson's Green

EDIT

I see a lot of people talking about Arkham Asylum... There is more than one Arkham Asylum book guys- one's called Living Hell and is about the Great White Shark's origins, the supernatural of the Asylum, Jason Blood's shadowy past and a mysterious killer inmate named Jane Doe...
[fantastic and well, well worth a look]

The other, by Grant Morrison, is Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth.
I presume that's what we're talking about here?

And yes, I'm a bit anal Flame me well done, lads!
In all seriousness, might just clear things up.

EDIT 2

Fuck, really sorry about the double post.

EDIT3

I read the Batman comics (if you count those).
I just finished re-reading The Dark Knight Returns. God, I cried like a baby at the end.

Man up!

Kidding

Fantastic isn't what with all those mechanical dinosaurs...

Spoiler

Not really.... but the line "I want you to remember, Clark... In all the years to come... In your most private moments... I want you to remember... my hand at your throat.. I want you to remember... the one man who beat you....(Vitals on Batsuit fail)

I actually dug out my copy just to post that.
If you'll take a closer look at my avatar you can guess why...

 

[The Random One]

Unless I'm very wrong all those works you mentioned as 'graphic novels' were first released as a regular softcover comic books. (And I still think Watchmen, for one, reads better that way.) If you're making a distinction the line should be drawn in works like Maus, that were conceived and released at once.

The again, several novels (real wordy novels) were first released as individual chapters, that was one of the main forms of publication in the 19th and (I think) 18th centuries. What's your point?

 

[ANImaniac89]

yes I have a big box right next to my bed
I have tons of batman,Watchmen, marvel zombies and much much more

 

[Neuromaster]

I'm in the middle of Neil Gaiman's Sandman at the moment. I recommend it if you haven't given it a look.

 

[Mullahgrrl]

I read the morning graphic novels in the newspaper every day.

 

[neuromantic]

I absolutely love them.. I read a lot of books and have never really gotten the hang of reading comic books in general, I hate cliff hangers and getting into a story only to have it stop ten minutes into it... Ugh.

I like having the whole story infront of me and getting my teeth into it without interruptions.

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

Does Bone count as a graphic novel?

Better yet, doesn't Manga count as Graphic novels in Canada? then yes, I read ALOT of "graphic novels."

 

[Krion_Vark]

Define Graphic Novel. A completely original thing like Watchmen, a compilation of a comic book story arc like Batman: The Killing Joke, or Japanese Manga?

If its all of those then yes I still read graphic novels. They are actually some of the best things I read.

 

[ender214]

I read manga online. Does that count?

Really, though, most comics these days are called graphic novels. Comics are usually used to describe the older evolution, with the large pages but overall thin book, while graphic novels describe the new evolution of thicker books with normal-sized pages.

 

[martin's a madman]

But... Watchmen and V for vendetta are comics...

I've read Maus I and II.
Watchmen,
V for Vendetta.

I'm not afraid to call them comics myself. Because I don't care about stigma.

 

[Mastercylinder]

Yep. Watchmen is one of my favorites. So is Batman the Dark Knight Returns and the Long Halloween

 

[thezookeeper]

Some of the better ones I've read (and by "better" I mean can't recommend highly enough):

Maus
Blankets
Ball Peen Hammer
Persepolis
Berlin: City of Stones
Pride of Baghdad
Black Hole
Jar of Fools
The Alcoholic

I'd also say that "comic" implies an ongoing series, while a "graphic novel" is a self contained story. Movies and TV shows are made the same way and look the same on screen; but they're not the same thing. Not that one is better than the other, they're just different ways of telling stories.

 

[WrcklessIntent]

Scott Pilgrim series is the only graphic novel series I've bought but I read a ton of manga online.

 

[RUINER ACTUAL]

Graphic Novel? You mean comic book right? Or is political correctness entering media too? Are video games going to become "Interactive Screenplays?"

 

[Caligulove]

Transmetropolitan.
You might say I really like it

Other than that, the last Graphic Novels I've read: The Walking Dead (though that's still ongoing) The Sandman, and Pride of Baghdad