Hey Matt huge fan here! I'm curious about something after having a discussion I had with my girlfriend. Would you consider comic books/ graphic novels literature? As in teachable in schools and whatnot. Or more of a sub category of its own design?

no; i’d consider comic books and graphic novels comic books and graphic novels, and very MUCH teachable in schools and whatnot. a vital artform with its own history language idiom craft and culture. i think a lot of bad thinking happens when someone applies the critical frameworks of one artform to another and takes the result as a given. comics shares a lot with the written word. it shares a lot with the drawn image. it shares a lot with film. but there are things unique to comics and only c...