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The First Graphic Novel?
Gil Kane and Archie Goodwin's Blackmark (1971), a science fiction/sword-and-sorcery paperback published by Bantam Books, did not use the term originally; the back-cover blurb of the 30th-anniversary edition calls it, retroactively, "the very first American graphic novel". The Academy of Comic Book Arts presented Kane with a special 1971 Shazam Award for what it called "his paperback comics novel". Whatever the nomenclature, Blackmark is a 119-page story of comic-book art, with captions and word balloons, published in a traditional book format. (It is also the first with an original heroic-adventure character conceived expressly for this form.)
The first six issues of writer-artist Jack Katz's 1974 Comics and Comix Co. series The First Kingdom were collected as a trade paperback (Pocket Books, March 1978, which described itself as "the first graphic novel". Issues of the comic had described themselves as "graphic prose", or simply as a novel.
European creators were also experimenting with the longer narrative in comics form. In the United Kingdom, Raymond Briggs was producing works such as Father Christmas (1972) and The Snowman (1978), which he himself described as being from the "bottomless abyss of strip cartooning", although they, along with such other Briggs works as the more mature When the Wind Blows (1982), have been re-marketed as graphic novels in the wake of the term's popularity. Briggs notes, however, "I don't know if I like that term too much."¹
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2. The Walking Dead, Book 1 ~ Robert Kirkman
3. Jerusalem: Chronicles From The Holy City ~ Guy Delisle
4. Batman Incorporated Deluxe, Vol. 1 ~ Grant Morrison
5. Cleveland ~ Harvey Pekar
6. Deadpool, Vol. 10 ~ Daniel Way
7. A Game Of Thrones ~ George R. R. Martin
8. The New Teen Titans Omnibus, Vol. 2, by Marv Wolfman
9. Wolverine And The X-men, Vol. 1, by Jason Aaron
10. The Walking Dead, Book 3 ~ Robert Kirkman
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DC Comics: The New 52 ~ Jimmy Palmiotti
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Ex Machina Deluxe Book 5 ~ Brian K. Vaughan
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Fables Deluxe Book Two ~ Bill Willingham
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Feynman ~ Jim Ottaviani
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Hellboy: House of the Living Dead ~ Mike Mignola
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Saga of the Swamp Thing, Book 4 ~ Alan Moore
Saga of the Swamp Thing Book 5 ~ Alan Moore
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Silent Partner ~ Ande Parks
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Superior ~ Mark Millar
Superman: Earth One ~ J. Michael Straczynski
Superman: Reign Of Doomsday ~ Paul Cornell
Superman: Secret Origin ~ Geoff Johns
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The Definitive Irredeemable Vol. 1 ~ Mark Waid
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The New Teen Titans Omnibus Vol. 1 ~ M. Wolfman
THE SIMON AND KIRBY LIBRARY: CRIME, by Joe Simon
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The Starman Omnibus Vol. 6 ~ James Robinson
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The Walking Dead, Vol. 4, by Robert Kirkman
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The Walking Dead, Book 6 ~ Robert Kirkman
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