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Big-Time Writers Lured to... Comic Books?

Posted Mar 25, 08 1:00 PM CDT in Business,  Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Comic books have officially arrived as a literary medium, NPR reports, and big names are coming out of the woodwork to write them. “In all the years I've been writing, there's only one genre that's really debuted in the New York Times Book Review, and that's the graphic novel,” says novelist Jodi Picoult, who recently tried her hand at Wonder Woman.

TV maven Joss Whedon has always loved comic books, and now he’s continuing his Buffy the Vampire Slayer show in four-color form. Paralyzed rapper Percy Carey, aka MF Grimm, was converted when he read Harvey Pekar’s autobiographical American Splendor. “I just have a lot of respect for the form,” said Carey, who tells his own life story in his new graphic novel, Sentences.

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"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" creator Joss Whedon is surrounded by vampires during the taping of the final episode of the cult comedy-horror series in Santa Monica, Calif., in this 2003 file photo.   (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, file)
In this photo released by Ataria shows Jodi Picoult, one of the authors to be recruited from other mediums for a run on "Wonder Woman" for D.C. Comics.   (AP Photo/David Levenson,Atria)
The cover for "Sentences" by rapper turned comics scribe, MF Grimm.   (Vertigo)
Fan-favorite characters return for an official "Season 8" of cult-hit Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in comic book form.   (Darkhorse.com)
Art by Terry Dodson accompanies a run on the legendary character Wonder Woman by best-selling novelist Jodi Picoult.   (DC Comics)
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