It was a rhetorical question.
Of course they are, it's like that old joke about the difference between erotica and pornography being the social class of the person reading/ viewing it.

Larpy, leather trenchcoat, Iron Maiden devotee, 'graph nov' fans down the 'Workshop would never admit it, but yeah, Tintin and Asterix are deffo in the same boat.

I used to love those when I was a kid.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 7 Mar 2013, 22:43, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

See now, personally, I'm all for calling a comic a fucking comic.
Regardless of whether it's 'Maus' or The Beano.
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Thu 7 Mar 2013, 22:49, Reply)

I agree AB.
Comics is comics. I can just about stomach the term 'comic book', but novels they aren't. They can't do structure like novels do, or narrative complexity, or anything even approaching what even a bog standard novelist can do with prose.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 7 Mar 2013, 22:52, Reply)

At the risk of sounding wanly, they're two different mediums. There's totally some stuff you can't do in books you can in comics.
And with big-titted women in spandex as well.
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Thu 7 Mar 2013, 22:53, Reply)

Well of course.
Hence calling comics comics, and novels novels.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 7 Mar 2013, 22:54, Reply)

he's right you know, I tried colouring in a novel once and got fucking nowhere

(King Zog of Albania lives in Kensington, Thu 7 Mar 2013, 23:15, Reply)