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by R.G. TAYLOR
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"Growing Up With Comics" is a lovely social
history of a time and place linked through the issues of maturation in
which the comic stood, for a time, as a medium of exchange and a subject
of general interest. I also remember it as a subject of debate, the
industry code imposed because adults thought some too powerful for our
young minds (the bums!). And the gradual increase in comics that made
the buying of them a struggle rather than a reflex. And then there is
the whole issue of communities that one builds, both in youth and
in maturity where it becomes a cohesive element in the worlds that we
built.
What blew me away in the pages was the way R.G. Taylor captured the
covers of the old comics themselves, not slavishly but in a manner that
conveyed both the style of the comic covers depicted through the medium
of this black and white's consistent styling. That's really lovely, and
the use of artwork by others, noted carefully in the page, again
mediated by Taylor's style so they
don't stand apart from the story but are folded in, well, that is very
nice indeed.
Tom Koch, author.
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