Comics shouldn't try to be like novels (13)

1 Name: Bookworm : 2008-04-23 04:29 ID:BVBC42Ld

Graphic novels shouldn't try to be like text novels. There are lots of writers who want to be accepted as literary, they want to be all deep and wry and elite-approved. (Fun Home, looking at you)

But graphic novels should try to succeed with the STRENGTHS of the medium...I'm tired of seeing pretentious comics with scratchy, poorly planned art and good stories. Comics exploit the graphic elements by giving us pretty ladies to look at, fantastical images, aesthetically pleasing lay out, fap material, elements of modern visual culture.

If you have a story, you should ask yourself "Does this story have things I want to LOOK AT and SEE." If the answer is no, it should be a text novel, not a graphic novel.

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