Comics sometimes get blame for social failure. There are many reasons, but one of the main reason might be the fact that a lot of young age of children are reading comics. Especially, when they read violence and graphic comics, they are not old enough to justify reality and fantasy. Some of the comics contain crimes, criminal stories, sex, rape, violence, horror, terror, marriage, and divorce. Those ideas are too soon and irregular for the kids. All the informations and stories could be shown as normal everyday life routine in comics, if young children read those comics and miss understand the separation between right or wrong, it could be a complete disaster. Not only for the kids, but also comics reflect what is going on society. People often think what is going on on comics are the trend of the society that we are living in.
To begin with, I really do like the idea of reading a comic about comics. I think it's a great idea and it's very well executed. As I was reading the first two chapters, I was surprised at how many examples there were of art in recent (and ancient, in some cases) history that are variations of "sequential visual art" and thus the foundations of modern comics. I'd never even thought about it before and it was hard to believe how many different kinds there were. I also love all the discussion about how our human brains automatically interpret certain images in a specific way, how we see others constantly but we identify ourselves when we look at cartoons, and how inanimate objects automatically becomes extensions of our bodies. The pyramid of styles was very interesting too as a way to conceptualize and almost graph or "place" a specific art style in comics. In Comic Book Nation , I enjoyed reading about the evolution of early comics from "funnies...
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