Graphic Novel

Daniel Steven Hernández Rodríguez

What is a Graphic
Novel?

• A new way to redefine comic books.

• Its target is a mature audience.
• Its edited in the form of a book.
• Published in hardback or paperback and
sold in bookstores, with serious literary
themes and sophisticated artwork.
80’s Boom

• Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns

(1986),
• Alan Moore’s Watchmen (1986–87),
• Maus (1980–86) by Art Spiegelman
(Pulitzer prize Winner)
BATMAN THE DARK
KNIGHT RETURNS
Redefining an old fashioned
model.
Bruce Wayn’s internal
struggle
He isn’t complete without The Batman…
OVERCOMING LOST
The Joker’s
Return
The Governmend ant the Press.
The Joker didn’t
have a cure.
• BATMAN IS REBORN AS A
SIGN OF FREEDOM.
The Atomic Bomb
THE SONS
OF
BATMAN
BATMAN
Vs SUPERMAN