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Thoughts on Graphic Novels, Manga, and Comics (www.theguardian.com)
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I have seen many people these days addicted to Tiktok, youtube shorts, or Instagram reels. Myself included, I feel like not many people read books these days. I for one rarely read normal books, but I do read a lot of manga and webtoons. My question do you consider them as reading?

https://medium.com/@bailey.anna231/as-someone-whos-spent-the-last-eighteen-or-so-years-in-a-school-environment-and-is-lucky-enough-b92181deef84

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[-] dresden@discuss.online 11 points 10 months ago

I agree with jordanlund, and consider "comics" as reading. Just read what you enjoy, but nothing wrong with trying out different stuff and see if anything catches your fancy. For instance, I recently learned about autobiographical graphic novels, basically, they are memoirs or auto biographies, but in comic format. Persepolis and Maus are couple of famous examples.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I can highly reccomend "Feeding Ghosts" which won the Pulitzer for memoirs:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374601652/feedingghosts/

[-] dresden@discuss.online 3 points 10 months ago

Thanks, adding it to my list! Will see if my local store has a copy.

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