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> I don't remember comic books being "nerd" material before the 2000s (like say computers or computer programming) I'm not sure how comic books got into this.
by karaterobot 2y ago
> I don't remember comic books being "nerd" material before the 2000s (like say computers or computer programming)
I'm not sure how comic books got into this. But comics were definitely for nerds: basically, socially-inept people who did things like reading instead of going out to parties. Computers were not central to the definition of nerd.
- strken 2y agoComics had quite a lot of breadth to them even before the 2000s. Consider Footrot Flats, which no self-respecting city nerd from America would have known of, but which two generations of Australian and New Zealander farmers grew up reading.
- ChoGGi 2y agoSpeaking as a Canadian with no ties to down under, I loved Footrot Flats growing up (thanks Dad).