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What are
Graphic Novels?

There are numerous definitions for the term graphic novel. Creators, publishers, readers or collectors of graphic novels, may define them differently.

For my research I am using the definition of U.S. librarian Steve Raiteri.

Graphic novels are trade paperback or hardcover books consisting of work in comic-book form.

Graphic novels may be book-length stories, collections of stories and works of non-fiction. This does not include collections of comic strips such as Garfield or Peanuts.

Graphic novels are a format and thus include many different genres.

Bibliography of my work

  1. Snowball, Clare (forthcoming) "Teaching Graphic Novels" mETAphor.
    An excerpt from my thesis which was accepted for publication in mETAphor, but the editor suggested I submit it to English in Australia, the peer-reviewed journal of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE), where it is currently under review.
  2. Snowball, Clare (forthcoming) "Teenagers' Reality" Australian Library Journal.
    A peer-reviewed edited version of the paper I presented at the ALIA and SLA Seminar Series for Information Professionals: Reality 2.0 held in Brisbane, Australia 11 September 2008 & also presented at Toowoomba Library 15 September 2008.
  3. Snowball, Clare (2010) "How to Improve Survey Response Rates" Incite, vol.31, no.6, p.24.
  4. Snowball, Clare (2010) "Teenagers: Our Future Readers" Incite, vol.31, no.3, p.13.
  5. Snowball, Clare (2008) "Teenagers talking about reading and libraries" Australian Academic and Research Libraries vol.39, no.2, pp.106-118.
    The peer-reviewed paper I presented at RAILS 4: Research Applications in Information and Library Studies held in Melbourne, Australia 30 November 2007.
    I discussed some preliminary results of my focus groups with teenagers.
  6. Snowball, Clare (2008) "Enticing teenagers into the library" Library Review, vol.57, no.1, pp.25-35.
    A peer-reviewed literature review.
  7. Snowball, Clare (2007) "Researching graphic novels and their teenage readers" LIBRES, vol.17, no.1.
    The peer-reviewed paper I presented at RAILS 3: Research Applications in Information and Library Studies held in Perth, Australia 23 September 2006.
    I discussed my research methods and preliminary results of my survey of Australian public libraries.
  8. Snowball, Clare (2006) "Graphic novels: Telling tales visually" Synergy, vol.4, no.2, pp.18-22.
    The paper I presented at "Children's Literature at the Edge: new texts, new technologies, new readings, new readers" the 7th International Conference of the Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research (ACLAR) held in Melbourne, Australia 13-14 July 2006.
  9. Snowball, Clare (2006) "Enticing teenagers into the library" Paper presented at the Great Southern Regional Meeting, held in Albany, Western Australia 30 May 2006.
  10. Snowball, Clare (2005) "Teenage reluctant readers and graphic novels" Young Adult Library Services, vol.3, no.4, pp.43-45.
    Details the beginnings of my literature review and the directions of my reading.