A dedicated group of aficionados - at all levels: creators, publishers, retailers AND consumers - have kept alive (and commercially viable) a particular delivery vehicle of a particular genre of American storytelling. Along the way they’ve managed to provide the critical mass to support an entire distribution system that allows an increasingly broad and sophisticated amount of material to piggyback on the core genre/format combination and be championed by a dedicated group of specialists. That’s a great thing and should be promoted to the high heavens rather than just begrudgingly accepting that print periodical superhero comics are no longer a mass cultural item like they were 25 (or 50) years ago.
MikeCR comments on CBR: Tilting at Windmills - Dec 15, 2011 - Comic Book Resources Forums
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