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By Aaron Albert, About.com

Definition: The term squarebound refers to they way a comic book may be assembled. The squarebound method is similar to a book or magazine in that the pages are glued to the spice rather than stapeled like a regular comic book. The term comes from the fact that a comic book that has been squarebound has a square shape to the spine. Most graphic novels are squarebound comics.
Also Known As: square bound
Examples:
That comic is really think, it must be a squarebound comic.

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