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Comic Book Prejuidices
Lee Barnett has an intersting article over on the Pulse website today. He considers the prejudice about and against comic books. Its a well thought out and presented article that looks at how and why people pre-judge comic books and the people who read them. One of the core points he makes is one that I firmly believe to be the root cause of most people's preception of comics: they've never actually seen (or even read) the inside of a comic. The vast majority of people views on comics stem from the 1960s Batman television show and ancedotal information from Dr. Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent from the 1950s. Both paint a horrible warped, and one-sided, picture of what comic books are. Simplistic children's entertainment with no value.
I experience this convulted view of comics whenever someone finds out I read comics. I try not to let it bother me anymore and take the opportunity to try and enlighten them to the larger comic picture. Heather's even experienced it. She took Ian to a friend's birthday party the other weekend. The theme for the party was Spiderman and at some point the superhero came up as a topic. When Heather mentioned that I read comics regularly someone mentioned (exact quote) "Oh, now that's scarey." Like there was something "wrong" with me because I am a 31 year-old father of three who read comic books. That's the guy I'd like to show From Hell, Queen and Country, Sin City, Fables, Losers, Bear, The Goon - hell, the list goes on and on. I could even show him books starring superheros (which none of the previously mentioned titles have) that would blow his mind and his prejuidices of comic books. Heather did her best to defend me - but she shouldn't have to do that.
Errrrrrrrr!
Now I'm pissed and I wanna go read a comic.
posted by Brendan | 5:05 PM | permanent link
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