Talk:American comic book

message: The comic book saw a decline from a World War II high but has increased drastically during the last 30 years. This has been caused by a number of factors, including the advent of the underground comics, the influence from and rise in popularity of manga and the recognition of the comic medium among academics and literature critics not just as trivial childrens' entertainment, but as a serious form of literature and art.
I'm not sure the facts hold up above, and in any case they're not given or cited. From my understanding, there is only a core of about 100,000 readers, and this is down from even the early 1990s when a comic could still sell a million copies. I'm not sure there's been a million-seller in a while, so this seems a decrease rather than an increase.
The advent of of underground comics was 40 years ago, not 30, and either number of years makes me wonder how relevant their influence is to present recognigition as literature/art. Wouldn't the rise of naturalistic works such as Harvey Pekar's, the Hernandez Bros. and "Ghost World", from about the '80s on, be the more relevant influence?
Lastly, and as much as I like and respect manga, I'd have to question whether it contributes or actually takes away from the literature/art equation. Even a technical and aesthetic breakthrough like "Akira" has had mixed critical response on its story, and the overwhelming majority of manga titles I believe are aimed at youngsters, along the lines of "Sailor Moon". (Certainly I've read that's true in Japan.)  I wonder if it's the European works ("Dylan Dog", Moebius. et al.) that might be more relevant here. Could we discuss?
-- Tenebrae 13:41, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
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message: If someone familiar with the two main articles on American comics could clarify to me why they both have gigantic "history" sections…
Someone needs to either merge the articles or reduce the "history" on this page to a summary. --Honestly, Bodhi 21:53, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge/Consolidate with "History Of" 

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message: This article was linked on Wikidata with general articles about Comics in the United States in various language (as fr:Comics). I corrected the mistake by creating a new Wikidata item for articles about the comic book form in the US. I'm nevertheless astonished by this lack of a general article about American comics (currently a disambiguition page) on this Wikipedia (even if History of American comics does exist). Kokonino (talk) 18:10, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Were is the general article about American comics? 

message: I think a link somewhere for comic book advertisement would be good. I added a link with a bit of conent but it was reverted. Rather than reverting, how about modifying it to keep the content with the link? Ping User:JasonAQuest.
Anna Frodesiak (talk) 22:55, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Taking out the inaccurate guessed-at details would've just left a statement that comic books "had" advertising at some unspecified past time, which wouldn't have been particularly informative. I've added a "see also". -Jason A. Quest (talk) 01:09, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds fine to me. Thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:13, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comic book advertisement