1984. At the end of 1984, George Orwell, appeared an appendix entitled "The Principles of Newspeak." It explained the basic principles of Newspeak, a very simplified version of English that the authoritarian regime of the Party of the novel used and intended to implement among citizens. copy of wikipedia Summary it well:
"The goal of creating such a language was to replace the viejalengua ( Oldspeak ), ie, that the reader would be the current English, so dominate the thinking of party members and do other forms of thought unviable contrary to the principles of Ingsoc (what the book is known as a crime of thought, or ideadelito crimental, depending on the translator of the book). For example, to prevent people want or think freedom, it eliminates the unwanted meanings of the word, so that the very concept of political or intellectual freedom no longer exists in the minds of speakers. " In
1984, as is known, the Party embodied in the Big Brother had a Ministry of Truth and also had officials who were responsible for suppressing every day new official dictionary words, particularly, of course, words that were considered " dangerous. " ---
1986. One example among many of how it was used in a natural "graphic novel" in the 80, in the scene, no one is tearing their clothes:
"Actually," Batman: Year One "Has Its origins in Miller's concept for original the Dark Knight series Some years ago. It Was Then That Proposed Miller and Steve Gerber to DC their idea for the “Metropolis” line of comics, which would revamp DC’s three principal characters and start their continuity over again from the beginning. The new Wonder Woman series would have been titled Amazon , the new Superman series The Man of Steel (which, of course, would not have been the same as John Byrne’s series of the same name), and the new Batman series would have been called Dark Knight . “I plotted the first four issues of the Batman title,” Miller says, but the Metropolis line was never launched, and he later used some of the ideas he had worked up for the Batman in his recent graphic novel series".Esto lo escribía Peter Sanderson in the journal Amazing Heroes # 102 (September 1986). The last sentence meant, of course, the four volumes of THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, collected in 1987 into one that was called by supuestísimo, graphic novel. It was called so from its own DC and was named in the journals of the scene, but from there, also in the general media Where did the work reviewed, which were many (Rolling Stone, New York Times, Village Voice , The Observer, The Times, etc.). In some of the media to quote the term because of its novelty then, "graphic novel." And yet, there was little doubt that this graphic novel was comic, even a new kind of comic book readers to the general public were not accustomed to the heights of 1986.
DC A notice inserted in the comic books of the time (yes, put "graphic novel") 
An announcement of Titan Books, 1987 --- 2011. why I can not help being astonished by this move today starring some intended, based on "corrections" in the language if anyone uses it, if not direct insults or humiliating jokes, "abolish" the term graphic novel, although I keep using a lot of people, especially general media right now.
anyone use the term if you do not like, I say, but let whoever wants to use it to keep doing it, but now is associated with "other" comic book (as was the other day in the Babelia list of the Country, by the way: FOOTNOTES TO GAZA, Joe Sacco). Because graphic novel is a term that is in the tradition of comics, comes in the comic, is developed and popularized it. It is in our vocabulary, in the culture of comics. I do not understand that someone intends to "erase" him. And, as I said more than once, if you disown a term that is in the culture of comics then yes, that's when someone who does not know the culture of comics might think that the graphic novel has broken "spontaneously." And that has nothing to do with the tradition of the comic. 
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