Do you think comics are a children's or adult genre/media?
I agree with Joe that this question is very controversial. Take The Adventures of Tintin as an example:
On the one hand, Tintin has influenced many generations since the first time it’s published. Tintin reminds their memories of childhoods. In this point, I think children are not the only audiences, also adults.
On the other hand, it has the variety of cultures and historical including in it. The Blue Lotus, which we learned this week introduce at the time Japanese troops were occupying parts of the Chinese mainland. Chinese elements were full of the story. That really helped people to learn different culture knowledge, both children and adults.
But additional, even most series are positive for children to read, there is still something that not good for children, such as reical stereotyping, political issues and so on. So to conclusion, comics are children’s and adult genre, most comics are good for both children and adults. But there is some part should be removed from the version for children.
I agree that part of the political parodies, sexual are not appropriate for children but not all the time things can be excluded for the children version. This is why we have the age rating system to regulate the comics and other media product.
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