Originally Posted by
Jim Kelly
Culturally speaking, the modern period was the period between 1860 and 1970. After that comes post-modernism. Whether we're still in the post-modern period is debatable.
In terms of fashion in western clothing, all the designs and cuts are essentially the same as in the 1920s. Fashion just mixes up those diffrent cuts--recycling the same ideas. New fabrics make it possible to do more with the designs, but it's hard for me to think of any new trend that is completely original and hadn't already existed.
Of course, this has nothing to do with comic books, as they are two dimensional and use colours in ways that we would never use them in the real world. Comic books are not supposed to be reality--that would be impossible--they are a figurative art form, meaning they are metaphorical not literal, using symbolic images to represent an impressionistic viewpoint.
To insist that comic books have to accord with some objective representation of the real world is like putting a boot on your Ferrari. Why would you want to limit comic books and prevent them from doing the one thing they do so well?