[UA] Books of Magic

[Nick Wedig]

>I wouldn't laugh too hard. There's at least one Sandman
graphic novel that
>was only published in that format. It has words (but no
word balloons) and
>pictures and meets the various definitions of 'graphic
novel' as expressed
>on this list except for the 'collected works' part. It's
called Dream
>Hunters and has very nice art by the guy who did all of
those Final Fantasy
>pictures (I'd just butcher his name if I tried to spell
it). So be sure to
>clarify before mocking them.

Yoshitaka Amano, IIRC.

Dream Hunters isn't a comic.  It isn't a graphic novel.
It's a novel with pictures in it.

>But if its collected in a book format, it doesn't have
cheap paper or
>staples down the middle, so does that mean it's not a
comic book?

nah, the physical format is less important than the
juxtaposition of visual and non-visual images to tell a
story, or some such.  Read something by Scott McCloud.


Mr. Teapot
should get to work

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