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Popular culture or pop culture is the entirety of attitudes, ideas, images, perspectives, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid-20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century.

Heavily influenced by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society.

The most common pop culture categories are: entertainment (movies, music, television, games), sports, news (as in people/places in news), politics, fashion/clothes, technology, and slang.

Popular culture has a way of influencing an individual's attitudes towards certain topics.

A graphic novel is a book made up of comics content.

Although the word "novel" normally refers to long fictional works, the term "graphic novel" is applied broadly and includes fiction, non-fiction, and anthologized work.

It is distinguished from the term "comic book", which is used for comics periodicals.

a medium used to express ideas by images, often combined with text or other visual information.

Comics frequently the form of juxtaposed sequences of panels of images.

Often textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information.

Size and arrangement of panels contribute to narrative pacing.

Cartooning and similar forms of illustration are the most common image-making means in comics; fumetti is a form which uses photographic images.

Common forms of comics include comic strips, editorial and gag cartoons, and comic books.

Since the late 20th century, bound volumes such as graphic novels, comic albums, and ' have become increasingly common, and online webcomics have proliferated in the 21st century.

A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other materials, fastened together to hinge at one side, with text and/or images printed in ink.

A single sheet within a book is a leaf, and each side of a leaf is a page.

A set of text-filled or illustrated pages produced in electronic format for reading on a computer screen, smartphone or e-reader device is known as an electronic book, or e-book.