Manga - Comic or Graphic Novel

UtenaAsnej77 · Post by **UtenaAsnej77** » Tue May 11, 2004 7:45 pm

Well theres always a debate going on at my lunch table about the difference of manga being a comic book or a graphic novel

go figure out of all the topics we could discuss at the table that happens to come up all the time so yeah, but I think technically its both whats your opinion!?

azulmagia · Post by **azulmagia** » Tue May 11, 2004 7:56 pm

A manga is a tankoubon, if it's in Japanese.

UtenaAsnej77 · Post by **UtenaAsnej77** » Tue May 11, 2004 8:34 pm

yeah but if it isn't in Japanese

TobinHood · Post by **TobinHood** » Tue May 11, 2004 8:44 pm

My opinion is that your lunch table needs to get out more

And yeah I agree with you, it's both.

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Tue May 11, 2004 9:04 pm

Errr... is there a real difference between "comic" and "graphic novel" anyway, besides the I-want-to-sound-grown-up tone of "graphic novel"?

But I'll bite.

If I were going to split them up, I'd say that a book that stands alone, not part of a series, is better called a GN. (1-book compilations of monthlies are close enough to "one book" for me - you know, it's 100 pages or less, thereabouts.) I can't think of any offhand in the manga world, but I'm sure they're out there. Ongoing series are comics. I call manga "comics" in general speech, because "graphic novel" is long and sounds too much like "I'm trying very hard to not admit that I'm 26 and read comic books." ;P

Moonlight Soldier · Post by **Moonlight Soldier** » Tue May 11, 2004 9:19 pm

I just refer to them as manga. =/