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he Robot Comics editions are free and run on your Android phone and (sometimes) on the iPhone (Apple rejected the adaptation of the award-winning story Anda's Game because the scene in which a video-game orc is beheaded was "objectionable").

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For anyone who does not know, a graphic novel is a serious literary work in comic book form, like Art Spiegelman's ''Maus'' or Jules Feiffer's ''Tantrum.'' If comics are ''those bright, colorful magazines filled with bad art, stupid stories and guys in tights,'' as Scott McCloud jokingly put it in his book ''Understanding Comics'' (Kitchen Sink Press, 1993), then graphic novels are their earnest offspring. The tights are gone, the stories are often grim, and the drawing . . . well, it isn't exactly comic.

The world of comics split into the cute and fantastical mainstream and the down and gritty underground.

Such visual eloquence can only motivate readers to seek out any future graphic novels from Shaun Tan, regardless of where they might be shelved.

Gene Luen Yang’s “American Born Chinese” was a finalist in 2006 for the National Book Award for Juvenile Fiction and winner of the Michael L. Printz Award.

f the authors of "The Will Eisner Companion" (DC Comics, 2004), noted that "Eisner independently coined the term graphic novel in 1978."