Author Reflects on the Unpopularized Term "Superfiction" Through New Oni Press Graphic Novel
By
Rich Johnston
Crisp on the outside, thoughtful on the inside. A keeper.
Summary
The article discusses the author's attempt to popularize the term "superfiction" to describe superhero stories and any fiction about people with extraordinary abilities living in a world akin to ours, exploring how subtext becomes text. It references a graphic novel titled "A Ghost Arm Made Of Angry Ghosts: A Superfiction Graphic Novel" by Oliver Mertz and Alex Diotto from Oni Press, using it as a springboard to discuss the broader concept of superfiction.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledA long time ago, I tried to popularise the term 'superfiction' to include superhero stories but also any fiction about people with extraordinary supernatural or superscience abilities, living in a world akin to ours and seeing the effects upon it, as subtext became text.
It would include the likes of Sherlock Holmes, as well as Superman.
I kept using it. It did not catch on.
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