![]() ![]() Gaiman recalls, “‘I write comics,’ I said and I watched the editor’s interest instantly drain away, as if he suddenly realized he was speaking to someone beneath his nose.” The editor, with polite disinterest, asked what comics he had written. The editor asked him what he did for a living. ![]() Gaiman describes having once been at a party where he struck up a conversation with the editor of a major newspaper. Neil Gaiman has an anecdote that does a good job illustrating the double bind I feel between these two terms. If I say I read graphic novels, however, then I’m a pretentious hipster with a blog that nobody reads. However, there’s one word choice that I’ve always hated having to make when talking about these books with other people: Do I tell them I read comics, or do I tell them I read graphic novels? I’m afraid if I say I read comics, then I’ll reveal myself as some pop junkie who never mentally left the fifth grade. I love Marjane Satrapi‘s Persepolis, I love Habibi, and I love Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. ![]()
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