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Comic Book Culture Grows Up and Leaves a Generation Behind

By AAN Staff
april 23, 2003  11:51 am
Comic Book Culture Grows Up and Leaves a Generation Behind
Although characters from comics and graphic novels have never been more prominent in pop-culture consciousness, the comic book audience is graying. Competition from video games, movies and the Internet makes it difficult for comics to compete for 11-year-old attention spans, and publisher policies, cultural preconceptions and unsuitable content have consigned comic-book culture to specialty stores that appeal primarily to 30-something geeks. Scott Renshaw says comic books "have been a gateway drug for a passion for storytelling and for love of reading" and mourns the potential loss of a culture that is in danger of becoming an anthropological footnote.
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