Watchmen

interview with the writer behind that comic, Alan Moore. He denigrates comics, and though I try to match the visual with the textual, I will say most of the "deep" comics are not all that impressive and, in fact, are not better than similar textual works in the same vein. Some famous graphic novel I read didn't even come close to an essay I read on the same subject. You can say it's a different vehicle to get that information out there, but come on now. In a way the reddit thread on this was similarly angry "don't talk about comics that way" to what Moore says, but I've yet to see him be wrong. Will try some of the recs on that thread:

Eisner's Contract With God has already been mentioned elsewhere in the thread. Maus is an obvious one. Even Moore himself thinks Dave Sim's Cerebus the Aardvark is one of the greatest achievements in the history of comics (and keep in mind he said that well after Sim got redpilled into schizophrenia). Love and Rockets is amazing. I'd argue a lot of Robert Crumb's stuff that isn't just porn is incredible, and honestly some of the porn is also incredible... and so on and on.

Anyhow, am I wrong? Let me know. 
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