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| The term was coined by Will Eisner in 1978, when he was discussing the idea for his next book with his agent and wanted to avoid referring to it as a "comic". |
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| Interestingly, however, many of the finest writers in the genre (Art Spiegelman, for instance) dislike the term, believing that it kowtows to the guardians of High Art and tries to bestow a faux-legitimacy on the comic form. |
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| Spiegelman's Maus, about the experiences of his parents in a concentration camp during WWII, became the first comic to win the Pulitzer Prize. |
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| Alan Moore's Watchmen, about a group of superheroes who have been affected by real-world issues, was recently named one of Time magazine's 100 Best English Novels Since 1923. |
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