English Literature: novels, plays, essays, and comic books?

Many English professionals have debated for a long time in order to define the subject of literature. Via Dictionary.com the definition of literature is “Writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays.” Wikipedia.org has a different answer to the literature question “the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letters), and therefore the academic study of literature is known as Letters (as in the phrase "Arts and Letters"). Dictionary.com says it is writing with meanings and ideas while Wikipedia.org says that it is the “art of letters” or anything that is writing.
As most arguments, the solution of this problem is not resolved by choosing a side but picking a place somewhere in the gray area between the two extremes. Most of us have a different definition for literature but most will agree that it is somewhere in between. This is the easy part, the hard part is placing exact words to the definition in order for it to say what you want it to say and others reading it will understand your stand point on every example they can come up with.
Literature- any media that uses letters to make a point, tell a story, or an idea. Many books that many would not consider literature will become literature upon this definition like: comic books, children books, graphic novels are just a few of the ones that can take either side. Left out would be things like: instruction manuals, ingredient labels, random gibberish, such things would be included when taking the Wikipedia side since it includes anything with letters.
Alan Moore, most currently known for “Watchmen”, “V for Vendetta”, and “the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”, published “Light of Thy Countenance” a graphic novel, the book was on the border for whether or not it was literature. “Light of Thy Countenance” is written in a very high level of reading, and has a very profound meaning, but because it is a graphic novel many do not consider it to be literature. But why exclude this from literature? It’s a good read, and the pictures help with the interpretations of the reading. In order to get his exact message across he used drawings that helped create the point he was trying to make.
By my definition it is literature because graphic novels are a form of media that Alan Moore uses to get his message across.

runner of blades (i didn't want to use bladerunner as my title,and was feeling uncreative)

Blade runner was an alright film where the protagonist is a hunter of these human made human-looking machines. They were made for outer space but were found to revolt against the government so they became illegal. They were soon being ‘terminated’ not killed or murdered; but these machines were so human like the only way to get one was to bombard them with questions, not sure how they were able to spot one using this method but it worked.

These machines had super human abilities like super strength, smarts, and agility. But they were not exaggeratedly strong, smart, and fast.

They could endure more pain than a regular human, toward the end of the movie one of them stabs himself with a nail, hit in the head with a pipe, and his ear gets shot off, and during all this he doesn’t show much pain.

These machines also don’t show much emotion. The machine that ends up with the protagonist doesn’t show happiness, sadness, fright, she just keeps the same emotionless face.

And the last argument is being born or created. These machines were created with a four year life span and they were trying to revolt and live longer (they failed and they all died except one).

In the end the protagonist is about to fall but the bad guy saves him and tells him something about living in fear is how it’s like to be a slave and the memories he has but which will disappear in time like tears in rain. The bad guy saves the protagonist because he wanted someone to know he was alive, and for someone to know what it feels to be a slave. So that he doesn’t have to disappear as long as he is in someone’s memory.

The film was odd, not ‘requiem: for a dream’ odd but like early 90’s cheesy affects odd. The ending was a little unexpected I thought there was going to be an awesome shooting and chase scene but it was the protagonist running away from the bad guy. The bad guy could have easily killed him but didn’t he let the protagonist run away. This was a way to emphasize the moral of the story; we are all human because of our emotions.

My conclusion of this movie was that they were human. They acted like humans, they felt like humans, they were smart as humans and they looked like humans, they just weren’t born like humans. Even though they were slightly superhuman, and they weren’t born like humans, they were human beings.