bondlkp.blogg.se

“Comics are mistaken by people for real literature and they’re not.”

Again, neither you nor I is equipped to deal with such a person.ģ. “Comics merely pretend to be real literature.”Īnyone who has ever read a comic should realize that comics aren’t people and can’t pretend to be things. I think it’s safe to say that if this is what people mean when they say “Comics aren’t real literature,” they have more problems than you or I can help them with.Ģ. For starters, let’s think about what the statement, “Comics aren’t real literature” can actually mean: To say that “Comics aren’t real literature” is wrongheaded, but not for the reasons people who object to such statements might expect. I think I’m actually going to do something more useful, which is to show that the entire discussion is stupid. in English and I prove how comics really are literature and that people who say otherwise are stupid. Now I know you’re probably thinking that this is going to be an article in which my Ph.D. I figure I’ve heard it said about a hundred times over the course of my career, and that should be plenty for the photo, unless I wanted one with Mark Hamill and James Earl Jones, and hell, who wouldn’t pony up the extra for that? If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard someone say that “Comics aren’t real literature,” I’d have enough money to get a photo with my favorite celebrity at a decent-sized comics convention.