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Chennai, Nov. 18 -- While the last decade or two have seen the consistent slide of the newspaper cartoon, what has jumped in profile, in publishing terms, has been the graphic novel. The graphic novel is everywhere and everyone is creating one. A cartoon in the New Yorker had a man standing in front of this boss saying 'Here is my resignation note. It's in the form of a graphic novel.' Graphic novels are young and sexy. They are also read mainly by the young. People of a certain age bemoan the lack of attention span of those much younger, and are quick to diagnose them to have ADD. How is it then that the single-panel cartoon that can be digested in seconds, slides, but the fat and often dense graphic novel, rides, is a question that awaits an answer.
PAO-The Anthology of Comics-I, is a collective effort by a group that...