The document discusses different types of graphic narratives including manga, superhero comics, personal narratives, and non-fiction comics. It provides examples of popular manga like Death Note and Fullmetal Alchemist. Superhero comics mentioned include Batman and Astrocity. Personal narratives include zines like The Quitter and Blankets. Non-fiction examples given are Pedro and Me and Persepolis.

2. WHAT IS GRAPHIC NARRATIVE?
• A GRAPHIC NOVEL IS A BOOK MADE UP OF COMICS CONTENT. ALTHOUGH THE WORD “NOVEL” WOULD
NORMALLY REFER TO LONG FICTIONAL WORKS, THE TERM “GRAPHIC NOVEL” IS USUALLY APPLIED IN
SEVERAL FORMS INCLUDING FICTION, NON-FICTION, AND ANTHOLOGIZED WORK.
• GRAPHIC NOVEL IS ALSO DISTINGUISHED FROM THE TERM “COMIC BOOK”, WHICH IS USED FOR COMICS
PERIODICALS.

3. INTRODUCTION
• THE EXPLOSION OF CREATIVE PRACTICE IN THE FIELD OF GRAPHIC NARRATIVE WHICH WE MAY DEFINE AS
NARRATIVE WORK IN THE MEDIUM COMICS IS ONE WITH WHICH THE ACADEMY IS JUST CATCHING UP.
WE ARE ONLY BEGINNING TO LEARN TO PAY ATTENTION IN A SOPHISTICATED WAY TO GRAPHIC
NARRATIVE.
• GRAPHIC NARRATIVE, THROUGH ITS MOST BASIC COMPOSITION IN FRAMES AND GUTTERS IN WHICH IT
IS ABLE TO GESTURE AT THE PACING AND RHYTHM OF READING AND LOOKING THROUGH THE VARIOUS
STRUCTURES OF EACH INDIVIDUAL PAGE CALLS A READER’S ATTENTION VISUALLY AND SPATIALLY TO THE
ACT, PROCESS, AND DURATION OF INTERPRETATION.

4. • GRAPHIC NARRATIVE DOES THE WORK OF NARRATION AT LEAST IN PART THROUGH DRAWING MAKING THE
QUESTION OF STYLE LEGIBLE, SO IT IS FORM THAT ALSO ALWAYS REFUSES A PROBLEMATIC TRANSPARENCY,
THROUGH AN EXPLICIT AWARENESS OF ITS OWN SURFACES.
• AS IT’S A FOREGROUND OF THE WORK OF THE HAND, GRAPHIC NARRATIVE IS AN AUTOGRAPHIC FORM IN
WHICH THE MARK OF HANDWRITING IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE RICH EXTRA-SEMANTIC INFORMATION
A READER RECEIVES, AT THE SAME TIME GRAPHIC NOVELS OFFERS AN INTRICATELY LAYERED NARRATIVE
LANGUAGE WHICH WE CALL “THE LANGUAGE OF COMICS”. THIS TERM COMPRISES THE VERBAL, THE
VISUAL, AND THE WAY THIS PRESENTATIONAL MODE INTERACT ON A PAGE.
• IN LIEU OF AN ABSTRACT, THIS IS A BRIEF EXPERT OF THE CONTENT:
• HILLARY L. CHUTE AND MARIANNE DEKOVEN

5. DIFFERENT TYPES
• WHEN COMES TO GRAPHIC NARRATIVES YOU WILL MOST LIKELY TO FIND SEVERAL DIFFERENT TYPES OF
GRAPHIC NARRATIVE SUCH AS BIOGRAPHICAL GRAPHIC NOVEL, HORROR GRAPHIC NOVELS, MYSTERY
GRAPHIC NOVELS ETC.
• HOWEVER AMONG ALL THE GENRES AND SUB-GENRE WITHIN FICTION AND NON-FICTION THE FOLLOWING
GRAPHIC NARRATIVE ARE THE ONES WHO PREDOMINATE THE MOST
• MANGA
• SUPERHERO STORY
• PERSONAL NARRATIVES ALSO KNOWN AS “PERZINES”
• NON-FICTION

6. MANGA
• MANGA ARE COMICS CREATED IN JAPAN OR BY CREATORS IN THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE, CONFORMING TO
A STYLE DEVELOPED IN JAPAN IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY
• THE TERM MANGA IN JAPAN IS A WORD USED TO REFER TO BOTH COMICS AND CARTOONING.
• ONE OF THE MAIN TECHNIQUES WHICH MAKES IT AN UNIQUE COMIC IS THEIR READING PATTERN, AS ITS
NORMALLY READ TOP TO BOTTOM AND RIGHT TO LEFT.
• WHAT MAKES MANGA SIMILAR TO OTHER COMICS IS ITS CREATION PROCESS.
• HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLE OF MANGA:

7. Fullmetal Alchemist Death Note

8. SUPERHERO STORY
• SUPERHERO COMICS ARE THE MOST COMMON GENRE OF AMERICAN COMIC BOOK. THE GENRE ROSE TO
PROMINENCE IN THE 1930S AND 1940S AND HAS REMAINED THE DOMINANT FORM OF COMIC BOOK I
NORTH AMERICA SINCE THE 1960S.
• SUPERHERO COMICS FEATURE STORIES ABOUT SUPERHEROES AND THE UNIVERSE THESE CHARACTERS
INHABIT.
• HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLE OF SUPERHERO COMICS:

9. Batman: Dark Knight Returns Astrocity

10. PERSONAL NARRATIVE (PERZINES)
• PERZINE IS A SUB-GENRE OF ZINES, COINED BY CONTRACTING “PERSONAL” AND “ZINE”. PERZINES
PROVIDE A MEDIUM FOR ZINESTERS TO WRITE ABOUT THEIR OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCES, OPINIONS
AND OBSERVATIONS.
• MANY PERZINES ARE WRITTEN IN A FIRST PERSON DIARY STYLE AND ARE OFTEN TRADED OR SOLD VIA
SMALLER, PERSONAL ZINE DISTROS.
• HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF PERSONAL NARRATIVE (PERZINES):

11. The Quitter Blankets

12. NON-FICTION
• NON-FICTION COMICS, ALSO KNOWN AS GRAPHIC NON-FICTION, IS NON-FICTION IN THE COMICS
MEDIUM, EMBRACING A VARIETY OF FORMATS FROM COMIC STRIPS TO TRADE PAPERBACKS.
• NON-FICTION ARE SIMILAR TO PERZINE'S IN THAT THEY ARE WRITTEN FROM THE AUTHOR'S PERSONAL
EXPERIENCE, BUT THE AUTHOR IS GENERALLY USING THEIR OWN EXPERIENCE TO TOUCH UPON A GREATER
SOCIAL ISSUE.
• HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLE OF NON-FICTION COMICS:

13. Pedro and Me Persepolis

14. LIST OF NARRATIVE FORMS
• NARRATIVE FORMS HAVE BEEN SUBJECT TO CLASSIFICATION BY LITERARY THEORISTS, IN PARTICULAR
DURING THE 1950S, A PERIOD WHICH WAS DESCRIBED METAPHORICALLY AS THE LINNAEAN PERIOD IN
THE STUDY OF NARRATIVE.

15. LIST OF NARRATIVE FORMS
• AUTOBIOGRAPHY – A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OR ACCOUNT OF THE STORYTELLER'S OWN LIFE.
• BIOGRAPHY – A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OR ACCOUNT OF SOMEONE'S LIFE.
• CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE – A STORY IN WHICH THE PROTAGONIST IS CAPTURED AND DESCRIBES THEIR EXPERIENCE
WITH THE CULTURE OF THEIR CAPTORS.
• EPIC – A VERY LONG NARRATIVE POEM, OFTEN WRITTEN ABOUT A HERO OR HEROINE AND THEIR EXPLOITS.
• EPIC POEM – A LENGTHY STORY OF HEROIC EXPLOITS IN THE FORM OF A POEM.
• FABLE – A DIDACTIC STORY, OFTEN USING ANIMAL CHARACTERS WHO BEHAVE LIKE PEOPLE.
• FANTASY – A STORY ABOUT CHARACTERS THAT MAY NOT BE REALISTIC AND ABOUT EVENTS THAT COULD NOT REALLY
HAPPEN.

16. • FOLK TALE – AN OLD STORY WHICH HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN ORALLY AND WHICH REVEALS THE CUSTOMS OF A
CULTURE.
• HISTORICAL FICTION – STORIES WHICH TAKE PLACE IN REAL HISTORICAL SETTINGS AND WHICH OFTEN
FEATURE REAL HISTORICAL FIGURES AND EVENTS, BUT WHICH CENTER AROUND FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
AND/OR EVENTS.
• LEGEND – A STORY THAT IS BASED ON FACT BUT OFTEN INCLUDES EXAGGERATIONS ABOUT THE HERO (E.G. THE
EAST AFRICAN LEGEND OF FUMO LIYONGO IN THE COAST OF KENYA).
• MYTH – AN ANCIENT STORY OFTEN MEANT TO EXPLAIN THE MYSTERIES OF LIFE OR NATURE.
• NEWS – INFORMATION ON CURRENT EVENTS WHICH IS PRESENTED BY PRINT, BROADCAST, INTERNET, OR WORD
OF MOUTH TO A THIRD PARTY OR MASS AUDIENCE.
• NONLINEAR NARRATIVE – A STORY WHOSE PLOT DOES NOT CONFORM TO CONVENTIONAL CHRONOLOGY,
CAUSALITY, AND/OR PERSPECTIVE.

17. • NOVEL – A LONG, WRITTEN NARRATIVE, NORMALLY IN PROSE, WHICH DESCRIBES FICTIONAL CHARACTERS AND
EVENTS, USUALLY IN THE FORM OF A SEQUENTIAL STORY.
• NOVELLA – A WRITTEN, FICTIONAL, PROSE NARRATIVE NORMALLY LONGER THAN A SHORT STORY BUT SHORTER
THAN A NOVEL.
• PARABLE – A SUCCINCT, DIDACTIC STORY, IN PROSE OR VERSE, WHICH ILLUSTRATES ONE OR MORE INSTRUCTIVE
LESSONS OR PRINCIPLES.
• PLAY – A STORY THAT IS TOLD MOSTLY THROUGH DIALOGUE AND IS MEANT TO BE PERFORMED ON STAGE.
• QUEST NARRATIVE – A STORY IN WHICH THE CHARACTERS MUST ACHIEVE A GOAL. THIS INCLUDES SOME ILLNESS
NARRATIVES.
• REALISTIC FICTION – STORIES WHICH PORTRAY FICTIONAL CHARACTERS, SETTINGS, AND EVENTS THAT COULD
EXIST IN REAL LIFE.
• SHORT STORY – A BRIEF STORY THAT USUALLY FOCUSES ON ONE CHARACTER AND ONE EVENT.
• TALL TALE – A HUMOROUS STORY THAT TELLS ABOUT IMPOSSIBLE HAPPENINGS, EXAGGERATING THE HERO'S
ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

18. THANK YOU!!

19. SOURCES
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• HTTP://ZINEWIKI.COM/PERZINE
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