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When I was a kid, comics were for all ages. When my parents were kids, comics were for kids. That seems to have changed.
by cauterized 12y ago
When I was a kid, comics were for all ages. When my parents were kids, comics were for kids. That seems to have changed.
- xienze 12y agoBecause kids don't read comics. When your demographic changes you have to adapt or die.
- Vivtek 12y agoBack then, comics were ten cents. Now they're twenty bucks. Kids don't read stuff that costs twenty bucks.
- xienze 12y agoTwenty bucks? Show me the regular run issue that costs that much. And it's not about the price, kids would much rather play with a tablet than read a comic (or go outside, even).
- danielweber 12y agoThe price still adds up. When I had tens of dollars a week of paper route money, it was easy to get a pile of 75 cent comics every month. I might just be an old grump, though.
- cauterized 12y agoDo kids not read comics because they wouldn't be interested in them? Or do they not read them because they're no longer kid-friendly? Which is cause and which is effect?
- xienze 12y agoWell, for the past 10 to 20 years kids have been reading comics less and less because they have TV and the Internet. Kids don't even go outside as much as they used to. Things change, and the comic book companies are adapting as best they can.
- cauterized 12y agoKids have had TV for 60 years.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> Kids have had TV for 60 years. Most haven't had TV with on-demand 24-hour access to child-targetted programming for nearly that long, however. And even less time have they had portable, go-anywhere screens with the same thing.
- surge 12y agoCartoon Network and Nickelodeon not so much.
- cauterized 12y agoNickelodeon's been around for 30. Cartoons or family oriented shows at all times when kids aren't in school, since the 1950s.
- ashark 12y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_comic_book#The_Modern_Age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_comic_book#The_Modern... The shortened-to-the-point-that-it's-mostly-wrong version: Prices went up for a variety of reasons, ordinary stores stopped stocking them, and the only way the companies found to move enough issues to avoid total disaster was to target men in roughly the 14-40 age range through dedicated comic book shops, embracing, in the process, a sub-genre of "grittier" comic story lines that had gained some traction.