Is graphic novels merely another name for comics?

In an area of written activity, for example a book, names like novel, fiction, comic, satire, poem, or a story are very common. Of recent interest in this category of English literature what stands out is graphic novel. When broken into parts according to a dictionary, ‘graphic’ stands for giving vividly explicit detail, and ‘novel’ stands for a fictional prose narrative of book length. And graphic novel is ‘a novel in comic strip format. My concept of a graphic novel is a prosaic presentation of a story with exhaustive and detailed narration (in the present case in English literature). In some cases, it is surely difficult to distinguish between a graphic novel and agraphic album. A further distinction was made when another category was described as graphic prose. This paper is an attempt to show how and in what respects a graphic novel differs from a comic. Thepositive attributes of a graphic novel-its importance in developing reading habits, as a conduit to harder reading and in developing interest in new areas, developing and changing situations, etc., also need to be considered.