Graphic novel as a postmodern genre Robert Kirkman's the walking dead

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Graphic novel is a recently wide- spread genre which helps readers understand the story in a very easy way.

"the walking dead" a graphic novel in a series which was written by the American writer, Robert Kirkman.

it has received the 2007 and 2010 Eisner award.

it is the award at san Diego comic-con international for best continuing series.

this paper hypothesizes that this graphic novel belongs to a postmodern genre.

it aims at proving the hypothesis by following the postmodernist approach of criticism as a method for analyzing the novel.

it is of great significance for it tackles a new genre that has not been well-studied yet, and because the selected novel has a great reputation and greatly-liked by the people who peruse its production as a continuous series of films.

the paper begins with an introduction to highlight the subject, methodology that is followed is well identified, discussion that shows the analysis of the selected novel, then it ends with the conclusion that sums up the results of the discussion.