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The essay links shifting definitions—“comic strip,” “comic book,” and “graphic story”—to changes in audience literacy, publishing practices, and economic pressures on publishers and distributors. It argues that adult readership requires new terminology and broader acceptance from the literary world.","# NAME\n\nTHE FUTURE OF“COMICS”  \nBY RICHARD KYLE  \nThe 1964 column that introduced“Graphic Story\"and“Graphic Novel”  \nFirst there were the comic strips.They were calledcomic strips because they were comic and theywere strips.And even when a lot of them stoppedbeing comic they didn't lose the name,tradition beingwhat it is  \nKurtzman,editing and writing the company's war maga-zines,brought an authenticity and realism and great ar-tistic creativity to some of the stories that no child couldhave appreciated—but which would have electrifiedmany intelligent adults,if they'd permitted themselves toread\"comic books.\"  \nHowever,in the state of almost universal literacy inwhich we live,to be able to read is no longer an hon-est-to-goodness status symbol.Like the automobile,it is.commonplace,and few people,any more,need to look atthe pi'tures to figure out what the little black bugs mean.Consequently,there is little shame attached to the read-ing of comic strips themselves;the shame,these days,isthe frequent—almost universal—childishness of the con-tents,which only devoted and understanding enthusiastscan overlook.  \nToday,there are signs the \"comic book\"is,finally andpermanently,about to burst out of its lonely isolation asa trivial form of sub-literature for retarded children likeourselves and take its place in the literary spectrum,be-tween the extremes of the wholly symbolic and the whol-ly real.Historically,the trend has been in this direction.Tomorrow,the range of our literature will vary from theshort story to the novel to the illustrated book and maga-zine to the serious “comic book strip”to the serious ani-mated cartoon to the motion picture to the live theatricaldrama.  \nComics fandom is one of these early signs of course.Successful publications such as Drag and CARtoons—\"comic books\"in everything but name—which are sell-ing to a somewhat older audience,and at a considerablyhigher price than the standard comic book,are another(for no adult publication can be established as long as itis distributed and displayed with the juvenile magazines)The increasing use of “comic book”techniques in seriousillustration is also significant.But—as always—the mostimportant of all signs is an economic one.As John Mc-Geehan pointed out in our October issue,comic [over]  \nThen there were comic books.They were called comicbooks because of the comic strips and because they wereat least partially comic—and in the idiom of the publish-ing business—they were books.  \nBut the comic book stories were still called strips,although they weren't.Then a lot of the comic booksstopped being even partially comic,or deliberately so,anyway.That didn't make any difference,they were stillcalled comic books and they still published strips.Afterall,they were still pretty cartoony,you had to admit,andthe stories were for kids and you had to have a name for'em,so what difference did it make.  \nThen,Charles Biro,the editor at Lev Gleason Publi-cations,who began his work on Daredevil and Boy andCrime Does Not Pay in the wildest and wooliest tradi-tion of the comic book,became gradually interested inthe field as a medium for serious writing,and directedhis magazines toward an increasingly older audience.Ul-timately,under his editorship,Lev Gleason Publicationsissued Tops,a Life-size magazine which not only printedoriginal stories in the comics format,but also adaptedmaterial from current adult books as well.It was aimedtoward a young,but wholly adult,audience.Tops,for avariety of reasons,failed.But it was a sincere attempt tobring the “comic book”out of the juvenile field.And—with all its faults-a promising one,neither comic,norcartoony,nor poorly written,nor for children.  \nA little later,the E.C.magazines came along.RayBradbury,a writer of quality,allowed his stories to beadapted to the “comic book”format.Bernard Krigstein,a fine artist,treated the “comic book strip”as a genuineart-form,and with such stories as “The Master Race,”he showed with genius what its future migh","cbCaiv7qgn8IRnqZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiv7qgn8IRnqZ","pdf",449180,1,2,"English","en",105,"# THE FUTURE OF“COMICS” - 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