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Richard,
Good job, Wertham and comics was not a topic I would have expectedWertham’sWertham’sWertham’sWertham’s Wertham’s, you made it work for you (I sound like Paula)
You said that comics could/would never make it into a real literary art form and that it is mostly Wertham’s fault…That comics would be reserved for kids and specialty shops…Weren’t they started for kids?
Anyway, this is interesting to me because my Uncle, 54, is a proud collector. While it is true that most of his comics center around superheroes…some don’t. Anyway, he buys comics by the dozen and goes to at least one comicon each year with a friend from Illinois. I went with them one year just to see what it was like. I figured it would be mostly kids and older men dressed in costumes grasping for sanity. It was some of that but there was another aspect. The thought that it wasn’t just “nerds” and that it was acceptable to be a collector. After all, most people collect something! In addition to the DC and Marvel there was a lot of Simpson’s garb and other comic strip/tv stuff. That’s were I spent my time. I’m a huge fan of the longest running tv series ever! So I have a question. While comic strips have disowned themselves from comics…where do animated shows stand? Surely Wertham has not done anything to hurt them…