Prose and verse are generally accepted as distinct writing formats with their own rules, styles, and grammars. Though their borders are somewhat vague, they have come to be seen as something of a dichotomy in the eyes of the general public. There are, however, at least 3 other popular approaches to writing as exhibited in picture-books, comicbooks, and plays. Though sometimes given short shrift, these styles are accepted as literature. They are included in libraries, book stores, and academic study. Most importantly, they are read. In the general case, there is clearly writing being done in the creation of any one of these. But what of the wordless comic or silent play? Should we consider scripts written, but fully realized plays, comics, and picture-books, to be performance, art, or some other kind of non-literature? These worries of theory are kinks to be worked out, surely, but they are not of immediate practical concern to the writer...
Aren't you a few years too late with the Backstreet Boys thing? Shouldn't he kill Good Charlotte or some new, equally as crappy emo band?
ReplyDeleteActually, yes. And he, or at least his minions, will. When the time is right.
ReplyDeleteSee, the set up, which wasn't in the above sequence, places these events in the summer of 1999. So, while my comic's subject is somewhat out of date, it is in tune with its setting.
Maybe I should have mentioned that earlier.