the boundaries of comics

May 9, 2004

I love comics. I really do. Ever since I was a little kid, regardless of whether it was my brother’s comic books or the Sunday funnies, I have always loved comics. I wish more people loved comics because I think it’s a medium with so many possibilities if not mainly attractive to pre-teen boys.

Other people feel the same way, to be sure. I was really pleased to read Neil Cohn’s Dissolving Comics’ Boundaries because he deals with those issues. I really like the idea of comics being integrated in a bookstore into their various genres. Really, though, with my preferral for online browsing, I think that this kind of thing could be easily integrated into searches that one uses at Amazon. While comics certainly can be searched in and of themselves, it would be nice to have relevant comics integrated throughout their various genres, so that Sandman would come up anytime I was searching for things related to Morpheus (the same way that, for example, greek drama and the Matrix should as well).

Then again, I prefer to do lots of info-sifting on the Internet before I make purchases. Lets me spend as little time in stores as possible, unless you think of the Internet as one big store.

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