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"The Similarities and Differences in Terms of Elements and Structure of Doodle Fiction,Manga and Graphic Novel"

Modern Literary Genres Presently Used by 21st Century Writers


Introduction

The 21st Century Literature refers to new literary works created in the last decade. It was produce by modern writers and deals with current themes, issues, and reflects technological culture. An imaginative writing often breaks with traditional writing. Compared in conventional literature, literature in the 21st century consist of number of genres mostly under technology. Literary genres of the 21st century include, doodle fiction, manga, and graphic novels. 

This blog primarily focused on the three modern literary certain genres used by the 21st century authors which are graphic novel, manga, and doodle fiction. We will discuss the differences in terms of elements and structure and similarities of these three genres. But before we proceed, let us define these three following genres.


Manga
It is a Japanese term for all comic books and graphic novels. The term manga refers to both comics and cartooning which are used in Japan. The most manga follows a late-nineteenth-century Japanese style, but the genre has a lengthy heritage in previous Japanese art. The following are some examples of manga.



"Fruit Basket"


"One Piece"

"Dragon Ball"
 


Doodle fiction 
It incorporates a literary form in which the author replaces regular typography with  doodle writing, drawing, and the graphic that looks like a handwritten.
The story is enhanced by the pictures, which often include humorous parts that would be absent if the illustrations were not included. Form of literature where a printed book is style to look like handwritten. 

The following is an example of doodle fiction.

"Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney"




"Danny's Doodles by Cam Jansen"





Graphic Novel
It is a narrative work in which the reader is told the tale through sequential art can be fiction, nonfiction, history, fantasy, or anything in between which is in a comic book format. The phrase is used broadly, embracing nonfiction works, thematically linked short tales, and fictional pieces of many genres. Graphic novel uses art to tell a story. 

These are the following example of a graphic novel.

                          "Coraline"



"Ice Heaven by Daniel Clowes"


So let's proceed to the main point of this blog which is the differences and similarities of doodle fiction, manga, and graphic novel.

Similarities 
All of the genres incorporate illustrations,drawings or graphics in storytelling. All of the styles to be even more obvious contains picture that engage viewer effectively. They have many respective similarities. These are all from the 21st century



Differences in terms of elements
In storytelling doodle fictions uses doodle writing, drawing, and the graphic looks like handwritten. Manga uses Japanese art style to draw the graphics and read from right to left. In graphic novels the art style use were American drawing style and the comic must read from left to right.


Differences in terms of structure
Doodle fiction follows a novel or storybook type of narration and like articles it shows both text and image which that the comic book style don't.










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  1. HI! I'm Pamela V. Bolencis from HUMSS-12 A- Marx
    Welcome to my BLOGGER ACCOUNT. I Hope that you gain and learn more knowledge about the 21ST Century Literature from the Philippines and the world. 😇

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