Comic books and graphic novels?

[countess_jay]

What is the difference? Are they synomyms?
I'm reading Persepolis for a college class and it got me thinking.
What is manga considered?

 

[Trevorbluesquirrel]

I think of comic books as either fairly thin with one short story about superheros, or thick like Archie that have several short unrelated stories!

Graphic novels as longer and thicker, that tells a long story in art and dialogue instead of scene descriptions!

 

[countess_jay]

I think of comic books as either fairly thin with one short story about superheros, or thick like Archie that have several short unrelated stories!

Graphic novels as longer and thicker, that tells a long story in art and dialogue instead of scene descriptions!

that makes sense because novels tell long stories. Thanks.