All forms of storytelling, whether oral, textual or visual art, are simply ways to convey information. And each has their own merits. After all, it's the information that matters, regardless of the definition of the medium.
I know I am a few years late, but this came up as a related topic for a different search. For background, I am a media academic with a primary interest in narratives and character arcs.
Your professor was just plain wrong. Comics are a media text. As such, because they are a media text they are therefore literature.
All forms of storytelling, whether oral, textual or visual art, are simply ways to convey information. And each has their own merits. After all, it's the information that matters, regardless of the definition of the medium.
I know I am a few years late, but this came up as a related topic for a different search. For background, I am a media academic with a primary interest in narratives and character arcs.
Your professor was just plain wrong. Comics are a media text. As such, because they are a media text they are therefore literature.