Comic books and graphic novels are a unique storytelling medium with their own visual language and traditions. Instead of just being seen as a genre of POW BIFF BAM, it’s a literary mode that’s just as valid as poetry, nonfiction, or fictional prose. And in that being acknowledged, it opens up comics acting as a critical mouthpiece just like other so-called “classic” literary works. comic books and graphic storytelling have the ability to transmit the maximum amount of information per page that most forms of literature can.
