Week 11

For this week's reading I had read Phoebe Gloeckner's "Diary of a Teenage Girl", Jeff Smith's "Bone" and Kody Chamberlain's "Sweets: A New Orleans Crime Story". I found that these stories followed quite a different format than other more standard comics and graphic narratives. I could definitely  more easily call these works literature compared to other comics, though I can't really say why. Maybe it's because these works have stories that more substantial substance in their stories compared to some comics as many of them have a new story every other week. 

This is certainly the case for Gloeckner's work as it gives people not only just a story of one particular young women growing up, but gives a voice to many other young women who go through very similar situations, even if their not the same. This gives us kind of a glimpse of what traditional media would look like as contemporary literature, and how comics deserve a place in that setting as well.