Any reasons given why kids aren't interested in comics is hogwash.
It's clearly a case of appropriation, with adults claiming the medium for themselves and not wanting to share, out of fear that having kids read comics will in some way make them look juvenile.
So the best thing to do is to adultify the characters to the point where kids can't relate to them while simultaneously feeding news stories that 'comics aren't for kids anymore'.
And then sit and hope kids go play with fidget spinners and leave their toys alone.
We've seen similar movements in both action figures and cartoons, but without the 'all or nothing' mentality that permeates the comics industry.
"There's magic in the sound of analog audio." - CNET.
When I was working at Gamestop years ago, parents were giving their kids their own debit cards for their allowance.
One kid had a $50 allowance. Granted, it was probably monthly, but I didn't ask.
When I was growing up, I'd get about $5 a week. As I got older, it increased to $10 a week. Until it stopped once I was old enough to work.
Kids today can easily get anything that costs from $5 to $20, if they wanted it.
Adults just don't want them to want it.
"There's magic in the sound of analog audio." - CNET.
Honestly, I wouldn't know one way or the other. I'm in my LCS for about 30 minutes each week, Wednesday, about noon, when the kids are in school. However, it's got a headshop vibe, so I wouldn't call it very kid friendly.
It's one of the more urban stores in the area that's near two universities. There is one in the suburbs that, the last I checked, is more family-oriented. That's just kinda sorta why I don't go there any more.
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Comics are too expensive for kids!
Besides, those kids who can afford comics prefer to buy digital copies of it.
Now, everything is about digital.
Here a little shocking fact, kids don't have a budget, they aren't paying for the **** they want.
Their parents do.
And parents, as many companies have known for a long while, tend to have two interesting things. 1) a steady income and 2) an urge to buy things for their kids.
Too expensive for kids? Mickey would so richly laugh at that if he wasn't a fictional character.
Going to be honest, they generally just aren't appealing places to go into. They feel like more of a collectors novelty antique store that isn't appealing to the eye and are kind of funky.
Depending on the day of the week I go to my lcs, there are kids, teenagers, and adults, black, white, latino, men and women, disabled, gay, straight. Unless you work full time at a comic store, how can you know who comes in the door during the minimum 40 hours they are open each week? Most people spend an hour or less per week in their lcs.
Indeed. I have been concerned that today's youth has been cheated of what really growing up was. Cartoons were a treat. A couple of bucks...you were loaded. I have wondered if there were online sites where the experiences of a true Saturday morning could still be found. Or, even that special time after school on TV.
From what I understand, kids are reading plenty of comics. They just aren't necessarily trudging to the LCS every Wednesday to get the latest stack of superhero singles so they can go home and complain about them online, like Real Fans™ do. Raina Telgemeier is a best-selling author, and any one of her books sells rings around Batman.
People have been claiming "Comics will be dead in ten years" for the last thirty years, yet somehow they're still around.
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