![]() In their relying on dramatic conventions of character, dialogue, scene, gesture, compressed time, and stage devices, he finds the comics close to the drama but probably closer kin to the movies. He finds comics both loved and hated, relished and sneered at. Why do comics both amuse and arouse controversy? Here is an attempt at an answer in a sharp-eyed comic-book lover's probing look at this stepchild genre. Upon even casual examination Blondie, Archie, Mary Worth, The Wizard of ID, and Shoe-among the many comic strips-will be found to support some commonly accepted notion or standard of society. Yet more than 200 million copies are sold annually. They have been investigated by governmental committees and subjected to severe censorship. Schulz (3.80 avg rating, 60 ratings, 10 reviews, published 2000), Truman Capote (4.27 avg rating, 45 ratings. One critic has called comic books “crude, unimaginative, banal, vulgar, ultimately corrupting.” They have been regarded with considerable suspicion by parents, educators, psychiatrists, and moral reformers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Comics and cartoons are ingrained in American life. ![]()
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