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cauterized | karma 1092 | avg karma 1.55 · 2015-01-16 07:24:11

Do kids not read comics because they wouldn't be interested in them? Or do they not read them because they're no longer kid-friendly? Which is cause and which is effect?

xienze | karma 2968 | avg karma 1.84 · 2015-01-16 13:35:20+00:00

Well, for the past 10 to 20 years kids have been reading comics less and less because they have TV and the Internet. Kids don't even go outside as much as they used to. Things change, and the comic book companies are adapting as best they can.

cauterized | karma 1092 | avg karma 1.55 · 2015-01-16 15:02:02+00:00

Kids have had TV for 60 years.

dragonwriter | karma 118260 | avg karma 2.17 · 2015-01-16 15:06:08+00:00

> Kids have had TV for 60 years.

Most haven't had TV with on-demand 24-hour access to child-targetted programming for nearly that long, however.

And even less time have they had portable, go-anywhere screens with the same thing.

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surge | karma 2389 | avg karma 3.93 · 2015-01-16 15:54:14

Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon not so much.

cauterized | karma 1092 | avg karma 1.55 · 2015-01-16 23:08:15+00:00

Nickelodeon's been around for 30. Cartoons or family oriented shows at all times when kids aren't in school, since the 1950s.

ashark | karma None | avg karma None · 2015-01-16 19:42:26+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_comic_book#The_Modern...

The shortened-to-the-point-that-it's-mostly-wrong version:

Prices went up for a variety of reasons, ordinary stores stopped stocking them, and the only way the companies found to move enough issues to avoid total disaster was to target men in roughly the 14-40 age range through dedicated comic book shops, embracing, in the process, a sub-genre of "grittier" comic story lines that had gained some traction.

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