/lit/ - Literature

>>19909210
>As I said, they're hybrids. Saying they're not written works is disingenuous.
you can make a comic without writing any words. so it is not disingenuous at all.
>they also contain their own expressive techniques (mainly using visual cues to the same effect as traditional literature uses words alone)
meaning what exactly? are you gesturing towards the concept of narratives? which existed in music and painting perhaps before oral storytelling and certainly before the invention of modern comics.
>the visual aspects of comics are employed in such a way (e.g. "sequential" art) so as to render them closer to narrative as employed by traditional literature.
and yet there are comics that don't have "narrative as employed by traditional literature" -- you are once again using comics as a mirror in which you "reinforce your existing ideas about what great works of literature look like". What on earth does Richard McGuire take from literary narratives in his work? What does Victor Moscoso take? (ill reply with a pic of his work)
>>19909290
if you wanted to talk about "narrative" then why not say "narrative" instead of "literature"? the narratives in many comics are simply not literary because there are ways of conveying sequential information with images that just are not possible with words. your hybrid medium idea only fucking works if you're not familiar with the range of things that have been done on a comic book page, and only familiar with the ones that conform to your ideas about what is literary (which you have taken from what you call "traditional literature" and projected onto comics).