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Are comic books /lit/?

Which one's do you read?

>> No.1785873

armamduke

>> No.1785899

le Sandman
le Johnny the Homicidal Maniac [inb4 shitstorm against free will]
le Amory Wars
le Watchmen
le Kill Audio
le anything by Ben Templesmith

>> No.1785901

> one's

No man, your comic books aren't literature.

>> No.1785909

Wachmen, yes.

Everything else sucks tho.

>> No.1785911

>>1785909

Seems legit.

>> No.1785914
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1785914

this comic was written by a guy who got 500,000 bucks for being a genius. can't say the same thing about anna karenina, can you?

>> No.1785919

>>1785914
>not vertigo

>> No.1785922

>>1785909
proudly ignorant posts like this should be bannable offenses. it's like when some kid is smug about having never enjoyed a book by a woman...except for frankenstein or some other ninth-grade english class-core thing

>> No.1785931

>>1785922

Name one comic that isn't a juvenile piece of shit or fantasy trash.

>> No.1785943

>>1785931
i dunno dude, any one of the aggressively respectable serials they've done in the new york times magazine?

>> No.1785955
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1785955

Read Asterios Polyp, /lit/. I strongly recommend it. You won't be dissapointed, I swear.

Also, anything by Chris Ware such as Jimmy Corrigan - The Smartest Kid on Earth.

They are visual literature at its best

>> No.1785958
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1785958

Graphic novels are literary forms as well as graphic art forms; the difference being a single franchise has multiple authors, universes, and stages.
I love all books, but graphic novels have pictures.
That's really the only difference.

>>>/co/26073296

>> No.1785961

>>1785958

Naw dude.

>> No.1785966

>>1785955
Asterios Polyp is really glorious, just a fuckin joy to read. I have mad respect for Chris Ware but his usual schtick doesn't really vibe with me on a visceral level

>> No.1785974

>>1785955

jimmy corrigan is some brilliant shit, i think that or ice haven by daniel clowes could easily be taught in a lit class

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1785980

>>1785914
And this one was written by a Pulitzer winner. It wasn't too good! When is Junot Diaz going to give in to inevitability and write his own mediocre comic book?

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1785999

>mfw no Daniel Clowes

>> No.1786006

>>1785999
look up two posts you dork

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>>1785961
Elaborate your response.

>> No.1786020

>>1786006
Fffff, I zoned out after "Jimmy Corrigan"
My bad

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>> No.1786086

>>1786011
>>1785958
what comic is that?

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>>1785909
Just saying.

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1786135

Really into Daniel Clowes (Ice Haven, and Ghost World stand out)
some stuff by Adrian Tomine (Optic Nerve was meh)
The Alcoholic (meh)
Big Boy and Rusty
Hard Boiled
Chuck Ware
Moebius (the Long Tomorrow guy)
Harvey Pekar (meh)
starting Blacksad
and mangas like One Piece, Gantz (pic), Freesia and ANYTHING by Shintaro Kago

>> No.1786164

bone comics, out of bonesville etc

>> No.1786172

Sage for not literature.

>> No.1786207

Sandman
Transmetropolitan
The Invisibles

And a smattering of other ones I can't remember. I doubt I'll ever again find any I like as much as those three.

>> No.1786226

I read the Coffin, which was decent, but I've never been able to find it since.

>> No.1786409

>>1785919
Regarding Transmet or Y or whatever as the peak of the comics artform is like saying True Blood and Dexter are the best filmed media of all time

>> No.1786433

>>>/co/

>> No.1788245

>>1785931
beautiful stories for ugly children