"Narrative artwork" or "sequential pictorial images", comics are a special form of storytelling that involve pictures and (often) words.

I have a particular love for the comics style. It takes the best elements of text stories and video and puts them together in a spectacular way.


*Warning Trivia Alert*
Many cultures and peoples have discovered the power of comics.

The Bayeux Tapestry is a comic!
There are cave paintings, Egyptian hieroglyph walls and ancient American carvings that are also comics. Amazing, huh?
Nowadays the three main versions you will find are: 

Newspaper (and Web) Comic Strips,

the Comics of Western Culture,



and the Manga, Manhwa and Manhua styles of Japan, Korea and China.

You can find many genres in comics. 
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Personally I'm very fond of sci-fi, fantasy, MMORPG humour, novel adaptations, 
and a whole bevy of kids' comics.
You may prefer something a little more horror, thriller, bad-ass action, romance....
and as you can probably tell by now I could go on!
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A lot of different names are used to describe comics, here is a quick glossary of our terminology to help you as you browse our comics pages:

Comic = floppy paperback book bound with staples
Trade Paperback (also known as TPB or Graphic Novel) = thicker book, bound with a glued spine or in hardback. Often a collection of a storyline previously printed as a comic. 
Manga = any manga style comic, usually bound as a digest, (we currently stock English language translations). They may read from left to right or the traditional right to left depending on the book.
Digest = trade paperbacks in a smaller format. You could almost call them pocket-sized, but they're not THAT small!