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Francesco Vanagolli
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Comics are a form of literature, so my answer to the thread's title/question is YES.
I often think that there is a wrong idea in many persons about comics: they're stupid and everyone can write them. When these "everyone" are from tv or "real literature", it seems that they will give dignity to the comics, at last. Wrong. These guys never understood that a comic book writer (a good one) must be a good narrator. Like Stan Lee, JB, Roger Stern, Chris Claremont and many others.
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Kurt Anderson
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Some will create degrees of respectablility for any artistic endeavor.
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Kurt Anderson
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| Anyone who gets paid to write is a "real" writer. Regardless of medium. |
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But I wouldn't say that payment is a required brand of authenticity.
Artists are artists prior to their discovery and the sale of their work.
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Valerie Finnigan
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| Assuming both present a story, which would you rather read? A comic without pictures, or a comic without words? |
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A comic without pictures is not a comic. On the other hand, after "reading" Uncanny 401, if I had to choose between words or pictures, I'd rather have just words.
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Al Cook
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Kurt A., quoting & responding to me:
"Anyone who gets paid to write is a "real" writer. Regardless of medium."
But I wouldn't say that payment is a required brand of authenticity.
Artists are artists prior to their discovery and the sale of their work.
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Kurt;
I was working from the assumption that the word "real" in the original
post was meant to be read as "professional".
If I write, I am a writer in the most literal sense. If I write, and have not
been published, I am an "aspiring writer", even though in that most literal
sense I am still a writer. But then, I'm also a breather, speaker, sleeper,
eater, defecator. Not exactly "real" jobs. But once I've been paid for my
writing, I can claim that I am a Writer.
Where I see the real problem is that payment is not a required brand of
quality!
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Ray Brady
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"Take any "great" writer, Hemingway, Homer, Miller ( of the crucible not
Civil War) or even mass market/mediocre ones , Dan Brown, CLive
Cussler,etc and one common themes to all is thier abillity, and neeed
to be able to create vivid images using only words."
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How does Arthur Miller fit in here? The Crucible is not intended to be read; it's intended to be performed. The "vivid images" are not provided by the words alone, but also by the actors, sets, lighting, etc.
Reading the script of a play is the equivalent of reading the script a comic book writer provides to his penciller.
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Martin Redmond
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I thought an artist got ploting credit whenever they drew the whole comic from only one vague command.
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J.C. Alexander
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Correct!
Which brings us to the times when fans have
informed me that I did not actually "write" the silent
stories I have done!
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Waitaminit...what silent stories? I consider myself a JB afficiando and I can't think of one silent story.
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Aaron Smith
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There was a silent Batman issue, I think. The first part of "Many Deaths of the Batman" if memory serves.
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Wallace Sellars
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Yes.
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Dan Bowen
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J.C. Alexander: Different medium. Period
I'll go with that.
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Dan Bowen
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Darragh Greene: "Roland Barthes once said, 'Literature is what gets taught'. Comics are turning up on English Literature and Cultural Studies courses moreand
more in recent years, so by virtue of being taught at university, have they
been elevated by the academy to the status of literature?
But what gets pushed aside or dispensed with, Darragh? And is that a good thing?
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