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The term graphic novel is contentious.
"The term graphic design didn't exist then.
The term "graphic novel" is actually a misnomer.
In 1922 typographer William A. Dwiggins coined the term graphic design to identify the emerging field.
He shrugs off the term "graphic novel", and prefers to call The Arab of the Future simply "a book".
An earlier version said incorrectly that the term "graphic design" was coined at the Royal College of Art.
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(Or is the more aesthetically correct term graphic-novel-inspired comedy?) Mr. Askins, author of the appealing, offbeat "Hand to God," about a boy and his foul-mouthed puppet, has concocted an elaborate and strenuously quirky tale of a would-be action hero on a quest to save the world.
The originality he brought to the subject reflected his talents as a biographer and journalist – the effects of individuals' ideas were represented in terms graphic enough to be grasped readily.
This was a leap into the next generation of what we understand today by the terms "graphic designing"and "concept art".
I don't very much like this term of graphic novel.
Roddick, 38, has had the shop for 10 years now and talks with absolute ease on her subject – endlessly dropping highly sexual terms and graphic descriptions into her conversation.
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