4 - Union of Pictures and Literature

In our lives, picture books, or comics, play a usually niche role in terms of developing literary skills and techniques, as the focus on both visual and literary aspects of the medium drives away people who are only focused on one aspect or the other. I however find the merging of both mediums appealing, as it allows for a great storytelling experience, despite the lack of literary analysis that is present in these books. It allows for another visual analysis, which is something that is not focused at all unless you have an interest of analyzing artwork, it allows for another way of visualizing a situation and making something out the depiction the cartoonist makes. 

One thing that also detracts some from comics is the stigma that possessing such material has on others, as our society views comics as childish and non-academic. I do find it true that most comics are less academic than their picture-less counterparts, on the surface, that is. Comics have a great way of bringing many audiences together due to their accessibility, which can create a “second life” to the comics, bringing in new meanings to old material and expanding it to fit new theories and thoughts on the comic. The accessibility and the bridging of comics is something that I think is underappreciated, as comics bring in people that academic texts do not, perhaps due to the notion that comics are mostly for entertainment, and the fact that academic works are usually not associated with popular entertainment, as while many will read such books, they probably will think little of it outside of an academic environment, only digesting the moral and the plot and being satisfied of getting such nuggets of information. 

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  1. ben prydeSeptember 29, 2019 at 4:25 PM

    I liked your comments about the stigmas surrounding comics. I agree with you about how they might seem less academic on the surface but when you peel the layers away you can see another level of depth. How ever I feel that in the right context comics could be as acedimic as a normal book, such as the comic we read in class.

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  2. Darren ZengSeptember 29, 2019 at 9:57 PM

    This is a good perspective regarding the perception of the integration of pictures in literary works and how they are used to evaluate the intellectual value of a work. Not all works containing pictures are made only for younger audiences and can contain content of the same or greater intellectual level as their textual counterparts.

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