Are comics/manga making novels obsolete?

[Anonymous No.444819]

I mean they're getting more and more popular while it seems like no one reads novels these days. Does this worry anyone?

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[Anonymous No.444826]

i wish /co/mics were getting more popular.

[Anonymous No.444832]

That picture is awesome.

[Anonymous No.444834]

I actually think reading (and writing) is going to get more popular again because of the internet

[Anonymous No.444838]

Nah. Comics are just becoming more versatile (as opposed to being only superheroes, etc), and therefore is starting to appeal to a wide audience.

Saying that comics are killing novels is like saying that TV is killing movies.

[Anonymous No.444846]

I think you're trolling, but in case you're not...

Your inability to read more than three sentences strung together is a result of you reading too many cartoons. It does not reflect the state of society at large. Society at large thinks your childish cartoons are a waste of fucking time. They look down on you for reading them. They look down on those who write them.

Pick up a fucking book. Stop fapping to drawings of cartoons.

[Anonymous No.444854]

I was at my local library a few weeks ago. I haven't been there since I was in jr. high. I went into the classic literature aisle which happened to be across the anime/manga section. When I browsed through the classics I noticed that a good portion of them were in pristine condition and have never been checked out (some being there for well over a year even) and when I turned I saw that all the manga books were dog-eared and torn. I was really sad ;\

[Anonymous No.444858]

>>444846

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[Anonymous No.444860]

comics are shit novels just like tv is shit movies

[Anonymous No.444875]

No, but they do change what's expected in a novel. People said that radio was dead when TV started getting popular, but the fact is that radio is still a huge industry. However, there were some things that radio programs did that TV does better: you don't see many radio plays any more because people prefer TV shows. In the same way, there are things that used to be novels that will now be more commonly done as comics, but there are plenty of things that still work better in novel form.

[Anonymous No.444876]

>>444819
Videogames are making everything obsolete.

[Anonymous No.444895]

ITT: people who don't read trying to explain why they don't, and actually believing that everyone else is just like them

[Anonymous No.444899]

With e-books people will suddenly pretend to be reading just to justify their stupid ipad purchases.

[Anonymous No.444917]

>>444895

>Durr hurr, I can't read. Durr hurr.

[Anonymous No.444931]

Books waste time describing shit.

[Quyen !mgEyLOjsnM No.444933]

Mangas suck lol.

[Anonymous No.444938]

>>444846

Prepare yourselves /lit/

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[No.445080]

They're different flavors completely. I enjoy an occasional comic book, manga, or graphic novel. However, I much more frequently read actual novels. Each has its own strong points and weaknesses, and each has a time and a place. I don't think either will kill the other.

[Anonymous No.445085]

>>444846
>Your inability to read more than three sentences strung together is a result of you reading too many cartoons.
>reading too many cartoons

I'm sorry, but you cannot read a cartoon.

[Anonymous No.445105]

>>445085
You're right, I personally can't read any of these disgusting cartoons. There's no way they're going to replace novels which have actual plots, developed characters, and writing worth a damn.

[Anonymous No.445109]

>>445085
LOL

[Anonymous No.445114]

>>445105
>You're right, I personally can't read any of these disgusting cartoons.

So you're a troll, right? In replying to you, I'm being trolled here.

Either way, if you cared to look you could easily find "actual plots, developed characters, and writing worth a damn" in many, many comics.

[Guppy !!Stw5IKEjMqy No.445129]

I don't understand why a person can't like comics and like novels.
Just as long as they are reading graphic novels and not that Asian manga shit.

But to be honest I don't see comics ever taking the place of books.

[Anonymous No.445133]

wow, this is an utterly absurd thing to worry about...

[Anonymous No.445554]

A page from a graphic novel

[Anonymous No.445564]

No.
Unsolicited testimonials of thousands of readers:
in any Barnes n Noble, shelf space is $.

[Anonymous No.445583]

>>444819

Yes because movies, are far more popular medium than comics, have killed off books.

Oh wait.

>>445129

See you go from an open-minded point of view to being all bitchy about "asian manga shit". It's like you haven't even read Akira, Ghost in the shell, Tezuka's Buddha etc.

Graphic novels is the most pretentious term ever. They're fucking comics. Sure the word has immature connotations but learn to fucking live with it.

[Anonymous No.445586]

>>445129
I like paragraphs. Comics don't have any.

[BLUEDEMON !!Xz8l55OpdZQ No.445600]

I see manga more so as a passing phase that most will forget in a few years. Since most of the newer stuff is god awful melodramatic tripe. The classics in manga are not being read by the masses, which makes me a bit sad.

[Anonymous No.445611]

>>444819

[Anonymous No.445628]

Manga is still relatively popular. Comics, shit... every time I check the new issues at BAM there's NO ONE in that aisle unless they're cutting over to the manga section.

Most people aren't reading these days. Over time, most people haven't read. Now it's just more depressing because most people are literate and have the financial means to buy books today and less people appreciate their purpose.

[Anonymous No.445655]

>>445583

I've read some graphic novels. They get over rough ground lightly with pictures.
I would rate them as closer to drama than to written literature, as dialogue is their chief literary technique.
Which is superior? Determine the bounds.
1st: can every picture be described in sentences? 2nd: can any sentence not be described by a picture?

For #2:

ego te per omne quod da' mortalibus
et destinatum saecul' est...

Through every age that has been given and destined for all mortals, I [... will love] you...

That's a tough picture to draw.

For #1: The Scream.

Perhaps it's a question of efficiency.

[Anonymous No.445667]

>>445655
No one would call "The Scream" literature or worry that it would replace novels. Even if the artist wrote something witty underneath, it wouldn't replace novels. Why would anyone think otherwise?

[Anonymous No.445719]

>>445667
The Scream isn't literature. It's graphic.
A poem is not graphic, it's literature.
These are the extremes between which fall graphic novels.

Perhaps graphic novels cover territory neither parent can reach, as Joshua on Pisgah, wasn't it?