how did the cultural status of comics change?
was negative, has become more positive
comic strip
short comic, sequence of images with border around them, usually found in newspapers
comic books
started as a collection of comic strips, but got developed and have more in depth stories
-often associated with superheroes
-you can have a comic without text, but not without images
emanata
things that are emited (smell or heat represented as lines above food/drinks)
sign in comics
many things that indicate something in comics (smell lines) have been learned and are more obvious in context
controversy around comics
after WW2, people wanted something besides superheroes, thus comics about crime and romance were born. This was seen as bad. Then horror books came to be, someone wrote a book about how comics were teaching kinds on how to do crime. People turned against comics. Comics Code of Authority was born, no graphic content, race or gender discussions. Half of comics disappeard. In 2011 the Comics Code of Authority dissappeared.
