The Exciting World of Graphic Novels writingHello friends, this is mainly for our people interested in graphic design, and illustrating. But I guess copywriters can also benefit from having a peep, after all this is about telling stories and as we all know that the great ads that we all remember are slices of everyday life (remember the Dhara audio visual, where a little boy decides to leave home in a sulk and how he is enticed back home with the promise of hot jalebis?).

But let us get on with our subject: graphic novels. What are they exactly? They are essentially comics with a slight difference. Their subject matter is not restricted to the exploits of superheroes or mythical characters; rather they embrace the ordinary life and are either fictional or non-fictional in strain. In other words, they are just like a story or a novel or even a report, only they use the comic book format of panels and blurbs.

Popular throughout the world, the interest quotient for graphic novels is on the upswing in India, as is the demand for comics. In India, it was in 1944 that Orijit Sen came out with 'River of Stories,' a compelling comic about a young activist confronting the tragedy of the Narmada Dam Project. It is often credited with introducing the graphic novel form in India. The genre became the talk-of-the town with the bestselling Corridor by Sarnath Banerjee in 2004. He followed it with another in 2007 called The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers.A page from Corridor

Right now for people interested in graphic design, graphic novel is a very exciting medium as far as India is concerned and later this year; Bhimayana, a stylish graphic novel on the life of Dr B R Ambedkar drawn in the Gond art style (the current favorite of world art) is expected to hit the stands.

However, the term 'graphic novel' is supposed to have originated as a cover up. In 1978, artist Will Eisner had drawn a comic with a difference. While talking to a big shot publisher over the phone, he came up with this term, in order to meet him, as, if he had said 'comic book', the publisher would have refused.

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