It's a narrative fiction. Yes, it is literature.

Perhaps we're arguing semantics. When I think "literature," I think of works that are actually important.

It is one of the most successful comic book series ever, so it really depends on if you think the comic book medium is important or not.

Obviously, I do not.

You're a dying breed though, tons of universities study comic books now in English courses, its how I was introduced to Maus and Persepolis.

Safe Area Goražde.
Case closed.

I don't really consider comics literature. An pastime worth spending time on, yes, a serious form of literature, no.

There is nothing serious about Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and there is nothing in it that is of great importance, but it is still literature.

Pamphlets on how to not get syph are called literature, too. Is that the meaning you're using?

Probably something from one of the twilight books. I'd get it done in Chinese symbols though so the twilight haterz wouldn't bully me. I'd get it on the back of my neck.

Actually I think I will do this.

I think you're just teasing, but again, comic books are written and drawn stories, if you exclude them as literature why not exclude classic picture books like The Velveteen Rabbit?

And now I want to read Safe Area Goražde, that looks good.

V for Vendetta and Watchmen are perfect examples of comics that were at least they were important enough to both earn movies and over $100 million in gross revenue.

Important=/=money.

Comics are great and are obviously legitimate examples of literature. Alan Moore is king.

No, but money can imply importance. Assume $10 per ticket and everyone saw the movie twice. That's roughly 6 million people who saw the movie.

I have bought multiple copies of Maus and given them away as gifts to my friends, it really is a classic and a unique way to describe The Holocaust. It is definitely important literature.

Sandman is hideously overrated in terms of literary merit. And I own the entire series. Gayman pulls shit out his ass near constantly throughout the whole story. A lot of the illustrations are remarkably good though.

Don't let the faggy cocksucking pseudo-intellectual foreword fool you teens!

Sandman is an amazing piece of literature. It's one of my favorites. Watchmen and Bone are also excellent works.

I saw a nice one on another forum, I should ask her if I could repost the picture, this chick has a tattoo of an onion (its actually pretty) with the quote "I may be wicked, but still I gave an onion."

I always thought of getting a line from one of Baudelaire's poems.

Or the quote "For the future, let those who come to play with me have no hearts" from Oscar Wilde's The Birthday of the Infanta; because it's the most recent one that caught my fancy.

Oooh, that's a cute idea.

"Ulthar". I would get that somewhere on me, but I haven't thought of a choice spot yet. For those who don't know, "Ulthar" is the title of my favorite Lovecraft story, it is the name of the town in which the story takes place.

Yes! tho' that long dream were of hopeless sorrow,

'Twere better than the cold reality

Edgar Allan Poe. Escapism is, in the opinion of yours truly, everything.

It is the beating of his hideous heart

Although I like the idea of Don't Panic

I leant my friend a copy of Maus to prove to her that comics are not just the funnies in the newspaper or super heroes fighting villains.

She has just borrowed my Persepolis and Fun Home.