EUROPEAN GRAPHIC NOVELS

A graphic novel is a type of comic book usually with a long and complex storyline similar to those of novels. The term also encompasses comic short story anthologies, and in some cases bound collections of previously published comic book series.

Graphic novels are often published in a better format than the comic magazines, using the same materials and methods as printed books, and are generally sold in bookstores and specialty comic book shops rather than at newsstands.

V FOR VENDETTA


V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in an anti-utopian future United Kingdom  imagined from the 1980s to about the 1990s. A mysterious revolutionar who calls himself "V" works to destroy the totalitarian government, profoundly affecting the people he encounters. 
Warner Bros. released a film adaptation of V for Vendetta in 2006.
The series shows a near-future UK after a nuclear war, which has left much of the world destroyed, though most of the damage to the country is indirect, via floods and crop failures. In this future, a fascist party called "Norsefire" has exterminated its opponents in concentration camps and now rules the country as a police state. "V", an  anarchist revolutionary dressed in a Guy Fawkes mask, begins an elaborate, violent, and intentionally theatrical campaign to murder his former captors, bring down the government, and convince the people to rule themselves.