>>5737395Graphic novels are comics, but graphic novels more specifically refer to the format of collected volumes, identical to tankobons for manga. Comic books are usually referred to as magazine-style issue releases like floppies.
Despite the distinction being in the format, there is a bias for graphic novels being more "mature" and "sophisticated" than comic books, which are for kids and manchildren. It's really all semantics that creators used with publishers to convince the publishers to put out their works, that they weren't low-brow comics, but ~*graphic novels*~, and therefore something of merit. Publishers pitched the same to buyers, and there went the train.
