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Originally Posted by SpiderMatt
Compare that to the modern bias against graphic novels. Things have certainly changed over the last several decades, allowing graphic novels like Maus (the only graphic novel to ever win a Pulitzer) and Persepolis to rise to prominence. However, there is still a common view that graphic novels or comic books are for kids and shouldn't be taken seriously. It may be decades still before people start to go back and realize that certain comics from today have cultural relevance that we're just too close to see.
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I have a deep seated bias against graphic novels, whether serious or comic.
To me......(and this is just my opinion) reading is meant to immerse you into another world.
Your mind forms the characters, gives them faces, voices, personalities.....you become involved in that world, thru your own imagination.
With graphic novels, the work is done for you. The pictures tell you what you should see.......ie, the authors version, not your own.