* A. D .: New Orleans After the Deluge, a non-fiction graphic novel about Hurricane Katrina

In 1999, Dark Horse Comics released a graphic novel adaptation of Whedon's original script under the title, The Origin.

* The present-time scene where Batman / Bruce is cornered by Detective Bullock's SWAT Team adheres to a similar setting from the graphic novel as mentioned above ( the abandoned tenement fire from issue # 3 ).

This adheres to a similar setting from the graphic novel as mentioned above ( the abandoned tenement fire from issue # 3 ).

Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever although set during another timespan and adopt some elements directly from the graphic novel.

Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins and its sequel The Dark Knight are set during the same timespan and adopt several elements directly from the graphic novel.

* The scene with Bruce Wayne returning from years of training abroad on board a plane reminisces the first page of the graphic novel.

* Tying Falcone up: In the graphic novel Batman ties The Roman in his own house ; in the film, he ties The Roman to a searchlight.

This is taken from the final act of the graphic novel when Batman does the same thing at the abandoned tenement fire.

* The concluding scene where Batman and Gordon are on top of the police headquarters continues, to an extent, the final page of the graphic novel where newly promoted Jim Gordon waits for Batman to arrive.

In 1964, Richard Kyle coined the term " graphic novel " to distinguish newly translated European works from genre-driven subject matter common in American comics.

Will Eisner popularized the term " graphic novel " when he used it on the cover of the paperback edition of his work A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories in 1978.

* Many of the members of Section 9 in the Ghost in the Shell universe, specifically the main characters Major Motoko Kusanagi and Batou, are cyborgs dependent on regular maintenance ; there are several manga ( or graphic novel ) and artbooks set in the GitS universe, as well as two feature-length anime films, three television series and three video games.

* Borgia, by Milo Manara ( artist ) & Alejandro Jodorowsky ( writer ), a comic in the form of serialized graphic novel, depicting the story of the Borgia family.

** Prince Valiant ( a fictional comic book / graphic novel character )

It was republished as graphic novel by the Wildstorm branch of DC Comics.

In June 2009, a graphic novel edition of the book was published.

A barely veiled satirical interpretation of Castaneda's work, Viaggio a Tulun was published in 1989 as a graphic novel with artwork by Milo Manara and as Trip to Tulum in America in 1990.

Neil Gaiman's acclaimed graphic novel series The Sandman influenced goths with characters like the dark, brooding Dream and his sister Death.

This novel method of upgrading the color count did result in graphic artifacts in certain games ; for example, sometimes a sprite that was supposed to meld into the background would be colored separately, making it easily noticeable.

The Underground has also featured in music such as The Jam's " Down in the Tube Station at Midnight " and in literature such as the graphic novel V for Vendetta.

* The Magic Goes Away, graphic novel illustrated by Jan Duursema, DC Comics

Shang-Chi had two more short series: the Master of Kung Fu: Bleeding Black graphic novel ( 1990 ) and the MAX miniseries Master of Kung Fu: Hellfire Apocalypse ( 2002 ) ( with artist Paul Gulacy on art again ).

Several Martian landmarks appear in a section of the famous graphic novel, visited by the superhuman Dr. Manhattan and human Laurie Juspeczyk.

* In the graphic novel Scarlet Traces-the Great Game ( 2002 ), Olympus Mons is the main base of the British Mars Expeditionary Force.

William Fitzstephen ( d. about 1190 ), in his biography of Thomas Becket, gives a graphic sketch of the London of his day and, writing of the summer amusements of the young men, says that on holidays they were " exercised in Leaping, Shooting, Wrestling, Casting of Stones jactu lapidum, and Throwing of Javelins fitted with Loops for the Purpose, which they strive to fling before the Mark ; they also use Bucklers, like fighting Men.

Jumping on the spy bandwagon, other writers also started writing about spy fiction featuring female spies as protagonists, such as The Baroness, which has more graphic action and sex, as compared to other novels featuring male protagonists.

Most graphic designers entering the field since about 1990 are expected to be proficient in at least one or two of these programs.

The American Broadcasting Company, which financed the production, was concerned about the graphic nature of the film and how to appropriately portray the subject on a family-oriented television channel.

The university library holds about 5. 25 million volumes of books and periodicals ( 131, 293 shelf meters ), 61, 959 manuscripts, 7, 133 music prints, and 345, 734 maps and other graphic documents.

A series of graphic novels followed in the mid-1980s, and several other authors, including Andrew J. Offutt and David Drake, published novels about their characters.

Both " Roxanne " and the second single from " Outlandos d ' Amour ", " Can't Stand Losing You " were banned by the BBC, respectively for the allegedly graphic lyrics about prostitution and the cover of the single, that featured Copeland hanging himself over an ice cube slowly melted by a radiator.

The director's cut of the film included the reinsertion of graphic carnage during the central attack ( including shots of eviscerated bodies being torn apart by strafing, blood, flying limbs and so forth ); small alterations and additions to existing scenes ; Doolittle addressing the pilots before the raid ; and the replacement of the campfire scene with a scene of Doolittle speaking personally to Rafe and Danny about the value of friendship.

Its graphic depiction of strategic bombing in the scenes in which Everytown is flattened by air attack and society collapses into barbarism, echo pre-war concerns about the threat of the bomber and the apocalyptic pronouncements of air power prophets.

According to Itoi, the film featured a graphic rape scene near a river that traumatized Itoi so much that his parents began to worry about his wellbeing.

As a consequence, Russian cinema during the late 1980s and the early 1990s was dominated by crime-packed action movies with explicit ( but not necessarily graphic ) scenes of ruthless violence and social dramas about drug abuse, prostitution and failing relationships.

Geffen Records refused to release the song " Yellow Fever " because of its graphic lyrical content about Asian women.

Determined to warn all about the perils of drugs, " Freddie's Dead " is a graphic tale of street life.

" Terry's studio had the lowest budgets and was among the slowest to adapt to new technologies such as sound ( in about 1930 ) and Technicolor ( in 1938 ), while its graphic style remained remarkably static for decades.

Mike Carey returned to the title for a single issue between Denise Mina and Andy Diggle's runs on the title, and also wrote the well received Hellblazer graphic novel All His Engines about a strange illness sweeping the globe.

This and other graphic pictures were given approval by the Office of War Information's censors, in part because President Roosevelt feared that the American public were becoming complacent about the war.

For his longer stories, he also began creating stand-alone graphic novels, such as Sloth ( 2006 ), about a teenager from a small town who wills himself into a coma.

* In Neil Gaiman's graphic novel The Sandman: Dream Country, Will Kempe is depicted in the issue A Midsummer Night's Dream, a short story about Shakespeare's first performance of the play.

Despite the importance graphic designers place on his book Thoughts on Design, subsequent works such as From Lascaux to Brooklyn ( 1996 ), compounded accusations of Rand being " reactionary and hostile to new ideas about design.

The Chinese film Men Behind the Sun, directed by Tun Fei Mou in 1988, is a graphic film about the atrocities committed by Unit 731, as is the Russian film Philosophy of a Knife, directed by Andrey Iskanov and released in 2008.

In Volume 2, Sai communicates his outrage about Tetsuo's " dirty cigarette " ( graphic novel vol.

Further collaborations with Gaiman produced the graphic novels Signal to Noise in 1992 ( previously serialized in The Face magazine ), about a dying filmmaker and his hypothetical last film ; and Mr. Punch, which explored similar themes as Violent Cases through the imagery of the Punch and Judy show.

Cages ( 1998 ) by Dave McKean Between 1990 and 1996 McKean wrote and drew the ten issues of Cages, an ambitious graphic novel about artists and creativity, illustrated in a stripped-down pen-and-ink style influenced by Alberto Breccia, José Antonio Muñoz and Lorenzo Mattotti.