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are comic books literature?

>> No.3158032

yes
>>>/co/

>> No.3158041

no. thats why there is a separate forum.

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3158052

comics are NOT lit

>> No.3158087

>>3158052

the caps convinced me.

>> No.3158101 [DELETED] 

Not even books ARE literature. Books contain literature. Literature is the artform of words, it is the verbal media, that's all. Comic books contain literature in them, they are not restricted to it though (or else they wouldn't be comic books from the start).

Sage this horrible recurrent thread.

>> No.3158108

Yes. The only difference between written and pictographic representation is the level of abstraction. The Latin alphabet is ultimately descended from cuneiform, which started out as a series of pictograms. We're communicating through pictures of things right now. Those pictures are just unrecognizable to us. Wherever you draw the line between abstract and concrete representation is ultimately arbitrary. Comics are simply a less abstract form of literature. Of course there are plenty of holes in this argument, but whatever.

>> No.3158111

>are comic books literature?
No. They weren't the last 300 times you posted this thread either.

>> No.3158115 [DELETED] 

>>3158108
Do not confuse ideograms with pictograms, bro.

And the thing is that there are visual and verbal texts (textile, fabric, web, syntax) and of course, comic books that merge the two and are obviously more than the sum of the two things.

>> No.3158150

>>3158115
I'm not confusing pictograms and ideograms. Cuneiform started out as pictographic. Pictograms are a type of ideogram.

Comics books don't merge the two. The distinction between writing and pictures is arbitrary is what I'm saying. You can't merge two things that are already one. They're just two extremes on a continuum.