The Comes Generation
December, 2008
urs was the comics generation. In the late 1940s, I before the advent of mass television, comics reading was what we did on Saturday afternoons if the movies were out of the question. We'd sprawl on the floor, feet in the air, reading and rereading our ample stash. Friends would bring other comics of greater or lesser value, and intricate negotiations would take place.We didn't know we were participating in a venerable art form. Narratives told through a series of consecutive images go back to...
