Graphic Novel

sequential art · storytelling · visual narrative · comics

Picture storytelling. Graphic novels combine drawings and text to tell a complete story from beginning to end, kind of like a really long comic book that comes as a single book instead of many small magazines.

All kinds of stories. Graphic novels can tell any type of story: adventures, funny jokes, true history, science fiction, or even serious real-life events. The pictures do as much work as the words.

One finished book. Unlike comic books that come out issue by issue, a graphic novel is self-contained and complete, so you get the whole story when you open it.

Art in panels. The artwork is arranged in boxes called panels that guide your eye through the story, and the way panels are sized and shaped helps tell the story too.