Reply With QuoteFor the sake of your project, I think you'll get a better, more interesting perspective if you ask those questions to people who don't read comics. As it is, you're asking comic readers what they think other people think.
At the moment one of my university projects is focussing on the comic book industry, including graphic novels, which issues exist within the industry and why these exist.
I was wondering if anyone has an opinion on the following matters, as I'm still trying to find out exactly what it is behind the issues.
1. Why do people assume comic books are for children? There's loads of comics aimed specifically at adults, like the Punisher or Wolverine, and then even the supposed 'children' ones like Spider-man aren't always aimed at children, so where does this impression come from?
2. Do you think there's a lack of respect for comics and graphic novels, and if so is it because people don't realise their potential to explore intellectual themes?
3. Why is it that comics tend to be associated with a male readership rather than a female one? Is it the portrayal of women in the stories, the tendency to develop male characters far more or is it simply that the stories told in comics aren't as appealing to girls as they are to guys?
Any opinions anyone has will be really helpful, hope to hear from you all!
Btw, i love spider-man, he's my fave
Mike
For the sake of your project, I think you'll get a better, more interesting perspective if you ask those questions to people who don't read comics. As it is, you're asking comic readers what they think other people think.
I just don't think "comics are for kids" is an issue anymore. Even slightly. Probably hasn't been for at least a decade. That battle has been won and then beat to death. I can't even understand why it keeps coming up.
It's now completely the opposite. People think comics aren't for kids. Which is totally true. It's just something 35 year old dudes do.
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The "comics are for kids" mentality is an offshoot of the "animation is exclusively for kids" mentality, which is still rather prevalent among those in the older generation. As said above, however, it's going away, largely because the people who think that way are starting to die off. Younger generations had The Simpsons and such to change that, though it's taken longer for that mentality to change with regards to comics because they are less mainstream.
Some people who don't know a lot about comics think comics are for kids because they have pictures instead of words and kids are dumb and don't like to read words but like looking at pictures.
This could also answer question #2 since pictures can't possibly be literature because you "look" at pictures and it's impossible to "read" pictures.
I agree with Bartleby. I wonder if it's because people grew up with comics as kids and therefore assume the medium never changed.
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Originally Posted by joepineapples
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I don't think these problems with comics are real problems with comics anymore, especially with highly literate communities.
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