When reading a few of the articles from this semester, the question of whether children's storybooks could be considered comics came into question. Based on McCloud's definition of "sequential art," we could argue that childrens books may fall into the description of comics. While they are both forms of multimodal literacy, in that both contain pictures as well as words, i think it is hard to categorize a children's book as a comic. If we did consider storybooks to he comics, the door would open up for many other mediums to be considered comics. There has to be some sorts of boundaries. Although a childrens book is, in fact, sequential art, I believe a main concept is missing frkm the reading of this medium: closure. Although every theorist doesn't agree that cllsure is important, or that it even exists, I believe it to be a main factor in the reading and understanding of comics; I believe closure is what makes comics such a great artform. They allow us to gain information through many different forms and put all that information together to create meanjng, whereas childrens storybooks tend to be a lengthy block of words followed by an illustration of what those words are saying, which doesn's give the reader any chance of engaging in the act of closure.