Why Comics

In Italy the form is called fumetti, which means “little puffs of smoke” and refers to speech balloons.

little puffs of smoke

Comics today is an art form with an ever-increasing popularity and range.

Comics, on the other hand, is a medium in its own right

comics is actually one of the last bastions of literacy

Sadly, Siegel and Shuster sold all rights “forever” to their character to DC for $130; after he became a success, their legal battles over years with DC for money and credit yielded very little, although the actual $130 check itself sold at auction in 2012 for $160,000, none of which came to them, either.

Spiegelman told me, “and was aggressively barked at by a reporter, ‘Don’t you think that a comic book about Auschwitz is in bad taste?’ I liked my response. I said, ‘No, I thought Auschwitz was in bad taste.’”

Marjane Satrapi, whose Persepolis series has sold almost two million copies worldwide, also shuns “graphic novel”: “I don’t very much like this term of graphic novel. I think they made up this term for the bourgeoisie not to be scared of comics. Like, Oh, this is the kind of comics you can read.

Spiegelman, lobbied the Book Industry Study Group (BISG), the group that standardizes book categories for booksellers, to give graphic novels their own BISAC codes in 2002.

While Superman wore a costume and saved lives, Green’s autobiographical character Binky miserably masturbated with his underwear at his ankles