Noun
graphic novelist (plural graphic novelists)
(comics) A person who creates fiction using a succession of pictures interspersed with text (i.e. a comic book).
I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics... I'm not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it. Marjane Satrapi