Comic books - The next literary wave

New York Times Sunday Magazine (requires registration - never spams)

Someday the novel... will go into decline -- if it hasn't already -- and will become, like poetry, a genre treasured and created by just a relative few. This won't happen in our lifetime, but it's not too soon to wonder what the next new thing, the new literary form, might be.

It might be comic books. Seriously.

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