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by MICHAEL TUNISON / COMIC BOOKS / GEEKDOM



You have to love when an industry comes together to tell the world what a positive force it is. Usually such self-importance is the calling card of show business, but it looks as though comic books want to get in on the fun with “Comic Book Literacy”, a independent documentary that will premiere at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo in April. I’m sure it will go over like a lead balloon with that crowd.

And, sure, comics can help with those who are trying to build basic reading skills and anything that is effective to that end should be duly praised. But is the industry really doing itself a huge favor advancing the notion that comics are essentially kids fare or aimed at those with only rudimentary readings skills? But then there’s probably not a documentary out there that can dispel the stigma that the only people reading them are socially backwards freaks, so I suppose this is the best way to expand their audience while getting to feel good about themselves.

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  • Golldurn these dad-blasted kids and their video games! Bunch of tits and blood, that's all they are!

    Why, in my day, we had great kids comic books. They were full of friendly ghosts and friendly neighborhood spiderpeople. Oh, what titles we had! We bought 'em with our moon pies and penny whistles. We learned so much, we did.

    Then we stopped buying them, because they invented video games and entire channels dedicated to cartoons. If only we had boring documentaries to instruct us how education comics are, maybe we'd avoid the same mistake.
  • ECM
    It'd be great if comic books were actually, ya know, for kids once in a great while, like when I was a kid.

    I know, I know: you're one of those hipster clowns (protestations to the contrary) that will continue reading 'edgy' comics well into his 40s (and beyond), not because you're a socially-backward freak (no, no, perish the thought!) but because comics are such a mature*, adult, medium now--so mature, in fact, that their sales numbers have been on a steady, downward, trajectory for decades because the kids that used to be their lifeblood can't relate to the trials and tribulations of balding, middle-aged, comic book writers.

    *Mature like video games where tits, blood and angst stand in for compelling stories.
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