novel

[Jonathan Lighter]

No real surprise, but now extended to include (surely under the influence of
_graphic novel_) bound collections of loosely-connected comic strips:

2007 Wade L. Eakle in _Over the Front_ (League of WWI Aviation Historians)
XXII 365 [Google Books]:  The next year, Schulz published his first
full-length novel, entitled Snoopy and the Red Baron, followed by a sequel
in 1969 that he called Snoopy and his Sopwith Camel.

JL

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