ABSTRACT
The graphic novel is a genre that has a rich history of evolution as well as an equally resonant body of theory and praxis with growing academic interest in the form of cultural production. Though the graphic novel is traced as far back as to cave paintings and hieroglyphics, yet its origin can be more directly traced to certain styles of expression developing in England of the 18th century. The Graphic Novel is a genre that has a rich history of evolution as well as an equally resonant body of theory and praxis with growing academic interest in this form of cultural production. Today the oeuvre of the Graphic Novel is burgeoning with many fictional and non-fictional gems. Their intriguing intersectionality with comics, fanfiction, fantasy, sci-fi, folklore, life-writing, journalism, historical fiction, pedagogical tools, films and novels has secured their ineluctable presence in the literary universe. The Graphic Novel puts together the legible identity of the city through imaging the interiority.
