(urth) Wolfe and Gaiman

[António Pedro Marques]

Son of Witz wrote (04-01-2011 18:03):
> I don't want to start ranting about comics, but calling him a "comics author" is very appropriate in that it highlights the particular problems of the craft.  Comics are a distinct visual art form, with problems and solutions that are specific to it's form. The probelms of a painter, a film maker, or a novelist are very very different than the problems facing someone trying to tell a story in a serial juxtaposition of images into a complicated arrangement of sub-compositions. I've made a lot of comics pages, let me tell you that it busts my brain as much or more than trying to do computer programming.  It can be very simple if your form and content work that way, sure, but to do something complicated...

I think Lee's objection was to the term itself in not being dignified 
enough. And I think that comics present a different set of challenges from 
other 'visual arts', not only from textual literature.