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Post 1

Miranda (Make tea! Yes, Cissdur, it's still me)

Started conversation Jun 6, 2001

The Norwegian word for comics is 'tegneserie', which means 'a series of drawings'. Aren´t we lucky to have such a neutral name for it? People still think it´s for children, though...
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Post 2

Decaf Silicon

Posted Jun 5, 2002

I like Eisner's "sequential art" to remove the humor connotation. I don't like "graphic novel" when too widely used, especially since it sounds like something dirty to laymen.

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