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September 7, 2001
Jan Baetens, ed. The Graphic Novel Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2000. 212 pp.; few b/w ills. Paper $20.81 (9058671097)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2001.11

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The graphic novel, a story presented as a fully illustrated narrative, is a high-art version of the comic strip. Like the true novel, the graphic novel treats serious subjects, but using images together with words combined with pictures. The proceedings of a conference on the graphic novel held at the University of Leuven, May 2000, The Graphic Novel contains studies of such well-known graphic novels as Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Jacques Tardi’s visual narratives, and some...