/lit/ - Literature

>>19905846
They are a hybrid between written language and visual art. They're categorized as literature because of the manner by which they express themes and ideas through narrative.
>You can make a comic completely textless and there are examples of that.
There are segments in Watchmen that are pictureless--unless you want to count a drawing of several pages of a book as a picture. Comics are a form of literature.

You can also get abstract and go into the history of written language and the relationships it has with visual art. There's a section regarding it in "Understanding Comics" by Scott McCloud (which is, I'll add, classified as "Literary Criticism").
>>19905861
>Comics don't have to be sequential.
So me a single-panel graphic novel.