It’s just past Christmas, so time to get people to spend those gift cards! Amazon sent out an email this morning promoting graphic Novels, and I found their organizational system fascinating. There were six categories listed:
Media Tie-In graphic Novels
Religion & Spirituality graphic Novels
Educational & Nonfiction graphic Novels
Contemporary women graphic Novels
Romance graphic Novels
Literary graphic Novels
All the superhero, zombie, or science fiction stories lumped into only one “tie-in” category! and that fourth category is a excellent thing to see.
In case you’re curious about what each contains, here’s a sampling of the first few titles in each category.
Media: The walking Dead and star Wars stuff
Educational & Nonfiction: Hyperbole and a Half, fantastic wonderful Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir, fun Home, and other memoirs
Contemporary Women: Lumberjanes, Rat Queens, gigantic Days, and Jem and the Holograms
Romance: Scott Pilgrim, gigantic Days (again), and the BDSM porn of Sunstone
Literary: Kate Beaton’s books, classics like Maus and Persepolis, and a great selection of current vital favorites, including killing and Dying, Here, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, and The Sculptor
Religion & Spirituality: books I have never heard of. clearly a separate audience from the normal comic reader.
Now, Amazon is very smart about data-mining, so they have probably realized that I don’t get any marvel books from them. In other words, I’m not sure how self-selected this is based on my past searches and other behavior. (Particularly considering that I already own four of the six items pictured.) but dang, it reminded me just how spoiled for choice we are these days. What a terrific time to be reading comics!
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