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\u00a0 \u00a0 Yes, indeed. \u00a0There is such a thing. \u00a0 In my childhood, by the way \u2014 back when North America was almost two yards further to the east northeast than it is today \u2014 we didn\u2019t know about \u201cgraphic novels.\u201d \u00a0We read comic books. \u00a0But that term, I take it, is\u00a0very much\u00a0out of fashion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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