GRAPHIC NOVELS ARE JUST ANOTHER NAME FOR COMICS! there, i said it

[Cuestionador]

I normally use "historieta" for the kind of serialized adult-oriented fantasy/sci-fi/horror/etc that was so prevalent during the 80s thanks to magazines like 1984, Métal Hurlant, Creepy, El Víbora etc, even though I know it can be used as a general term

There were great magazines! I have a couple of Viboras with Miyuki mata, some Zona84, three issues of Epic Illustrated, some issues of both volumes of Fierro and the Creepy Presents dedicated to Alex Toth and Bernie Wrightson (i love to obtain the Ditko and Corben volumes someday).

 

[MasterEn]

"GRAPHIC NOVELS ARE JUST ANOTHER NAME FOR COMICS! there, i said it"
i agree 100%

 

[Yuki Senoue]

, in the West, we don't have seperate distinct genres for comics like they do in Japan for comics (seinen, shonen, josei, shoujo, etc)

They aren't genres, they're demographics. Shonen is focused in adolescent boys, shoujo in adolescent girls, josei in young adult women and seinen in young adult men. A Shonen manga, just like any comic, can be a variety of genres, comedy, action, rom-com, etc. One of my favorite action manga, X by CLAMP, is a shoujo manga.

 

[7eve70rd]

Graphic Novels
are picture books with boobs in them.

 

[Goblin Slayer]

Well, you aren't wrong. technically, anything that has a story and drawn art is a comic.
You could argue that even versions of the Bible, the ones with the art, are technically comics/visual novels.

Except the FILTHY GOBLIN ART!!!... Oh... they want you to think it's art...
Oh nonono, it's Goblinated art... just like they GOBLINATE!!!! everything else...

Filthy little GOBLIN fingers... in paint, gobbling up paper and walls and... what, huh?
<shakes head> Bururururu

Anyhow, I really don't care if a visual novel is technically a comic. I enjoy reading them as well as comics, so it's no real deal breaker for me.

...goblins...