Comics LiteratureIt's funny how time flies and how memory seems to go with it. I remember when I was fourteen and decided to write the great American novel. I thought then that I was going to have to love the dreaded of all subjects, English. I tried hard. I gave 110% on the writing assignments, read most of what they told us was good, and really tried diligently to care about gerunds. But like it or not, a lot of English was drier than my grandmother's skin. I tried to remember some things that my classmates and I read in our middle school English classes and managed to come up with a few: The Canterbury Tales, Romeo and Juliet, and A Rose for Emily, other than that, I draw a blank. It seems I spent less time reading the manual than the comics I hid there. I look back on that time now with fondness. The 80s and early 90s were a revolutionary time for comics. With comic book writers like Grant Morrison, Frank Miller, and Alan Moore, kids didn't move from reading comics to reading other things; comics seemed to mature with us. Of course, our teachers didn't see the literary revolution happening in the books to come - I would bet that most of our teachers hadn't read a comic book since they were young. But now 80s comic book readers are coming of age, we're entering the workforce, we're slowly taking over the world, and it's time to make some changes. If I were to ask teachers if they were teaching or considering incorporating comics into their classes, the answer I would expect from most would be “no.” Comics, another form of creative writing, are not represented in almost all literature textbooks today, even though comics have been around for centuries. According to Will Eisner, comic book creator and advocate for comics in the classroom, "Long before the invention of the alphabet, which depends on readers' ability to memorize its code, sequential images were used to record knowledge and communicate the experiences of man, whether read or read. imaginary” (75). I think this question may have started because comics aren't just a word-based medium like a short story is. Instead, comics are words juxtaposed with works of art – works of art that often seem very iconic, almost – dare I say – cartoonish. .