I really enjoyed Austin Grossman's Lecture. I thought that he had a lot of intersting views about comics being literature. I personally thinkthat comics are literature. I dont think that literature is based on the scholars opinion, or the popularity or a certain piece. Just becuase there are a series of pictures that describe the actions, there is still dialoge. Shakesphere plays are almost all dialect. So if comics arent literature then neither is Shakesphere.