I'm tired of being looked own upon for reading comics, but not something like Twilight! If one is a legitimate form or literature, so is the other. For every Harry Potter, there is an All-star Superman. For every To Kill A Mockingbird, there is a Watchmen. And for every Twilight or smut novel, there is a Youngblood or Clone Saga. Damn literature Nazis to hell, along with that bastard Shakespeare.
Comics/Manga are literature, damn it!!!!!!
That being said comics will never be taken seriously for the same reason that they are awesome. The pictures. Most I've talked to who don't like comics sat it's because they equate them to picture books
I agree. My mum used to tell me off for not reading enough "proper literature". The most irritating this was that I actually did read the kind of books she wanted me to.
@jointron33 said:
I'm tired of being looked own upon for reading comics, but not something like Twilight! If one is a legitimate form or literature, so is the other. For every Harry Potter, there is an All-star Superman. For every To Kill A Mockingbird, there is a Watchmen. And for every Twilight or smut novel, there is a Youngblood or Clone Saga. Damn literature Nazis to hell, along with that bastard Shakespeare.
LOL
I agree, comics are overlooked way too much.
but literature is defined as WRITTEN word. Comics still belong on a book shelf, but I don't think they should be called literature because they are written and illustrated work.
I think the word you want more is "Classics". To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic to some people, and so is Watchmen. So I think the word you want is classic...
@The Poet said:
but literature is defined as WRITTEN word. Comics still belong on a book shelf, but I don't think they should be called literature because they are written and illustrated work.
The two are not necessarily mutually exclusive terms. Comics are still written.
Still, I don't feel right calling "comics" literature. Just a select few GNs (throwing Sandman in there)
We're getting there. I wrote my undergrad English thesis on Grant Morrison's portrayal of Darkseid and my graduate university even has a graphic novel specialist in their English Department! People have even written doctoral dissertations on Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, and Warren Ellis!
People in general tend to be pretty idiotic and close-minded, but that doesn't change the fact that five decades after Wertham and friends butchered the comics medium, we're taking it back and the people in the know are taking notice.....not that you'd have a terribly good chance of making that point to someone you just met on the street. But who cares about them anyway?
Many books that are considered literary classics are illustrated. Ask Lewis Carroll, Roald Dahl, or A. A. Milne. Ask Hunter S Thompson. Just because a piece of work is illustrated does not mean that any prose contained therein should be automatically dismissed as "not being real literature".
In my opinion, Comic Books are literature, only expressed in a different method.
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