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John Byrne
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On my iMac, I click and hold on the link, then drag to the side.
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Steve De Young
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It is still interesting to me that comics haven’t caught back on. I mean ‘geek culture’ is all the rage. The biggest blockbuster movies and a big portion of TV is now adapted from comics. All kinds of mercy with these characters sells like hot cakes. Print books have staged an impressive recovery. But nobody seems all that interested in the comics.
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Ron Grant
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It is still interesting to me that comics haven’t caught
back on. I mean ‘geek culture’ is all the rage. The
biggest blockbuster movies and a big portion of TV is
now adapted from comics.
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That's because they are written for 45 plus fanboys
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Shaun Barry
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Kids don't like comics anymore. Mine don't, anyway.
Edited by Shaun Barry on 23 February 2020 at 4:28pm
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Michael Roberts
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Kids don't like comics anymore.
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Not true. Graphic novel sales in the book channel have continued to grow year after year. What's driving that is juvenile fiction, like the Dav Pilkey and Raina Telgemeier stuff, and manga. What they're not liking is superhero comics from the big Two.
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Michael Penn
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I don't know anything about sales statistics. But I can
offer my own merely anecdotal experience. I raised one
boy to man, he was born in 1993, and he very much wanted
to like superhero comicbooks -- yet, he didn't find
anything new he liked. More broadly, though, he did not
read anything non-superhero, and I cannot recall a single
instance of he and his friends being into non-superhero
comics or graphic novels. My younger son is 12 years old,
and he absolutely adores supeheroes, and he loves reading
older comics... but, yet again, he has never found
anything new that he likes, and neither do he nor his
friends read anything non-superhero either. (In fact, I
asked him just now, and he said -- no, nobody in his 6th
grade is reading comics, of any kind). I have not, in
nearly 27 years of parenting two boys, seen evidence of
kids reading comicbooks.
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Doug Centers
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Both of my kids are in their early twenties now. When they were younger Manga is where most of their reading went.
when my son was a teenager he did get into Deadpool for a while.
They're both reading Manga to this day.
All this with my heavy superhero influence on them.
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Tim O Neill
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I think the monthly comic book is not a sustainable business model anymore -
it was already on the ropes before magazines imploded, but now it's hopeless.
I think Marvel and DC should shift to graphic novels only, but take the bold
step to make them original material. Less tiles, of course, but a greater chance
for them to have an impact.
Maybe DiDio exit is a sign of a big change coming? He seems to have been an
advocate for the monthly model.
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