There has been no natural progression or actual improvement in the actual structure , art , quality, style etc. since marxists have taken over. It has been stagnant for a long time similar to western art and music in general. What do you think the american comic book industry could improve(outside of the obvious getting rid of woke stuff)?
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Not true and also CCA stifled artistic freedom and creativity and banned literally everything adult. That's why everything turned in to "just for kids" (including decimating the horror genre and making one dimensional heroes and villains)
I'm not saying they were inherently good, but there is a tendency to downplay the very real concerns people had. Cuties is a return to form for the film industry.
Cuties cannot be compared , Cuties hurt actual minors and is already illegal (but you know how it is with the corrupt politicians and Netflix). . But when it comes to actual artistic freedom hurting nobody its ridiculous to support CCA, unless you want to go back to the days, where everything has to be for kids.
BUT the point stands, that there were still multiple genres available under the Code. The horror ones often doubled as crime comics, where a ne'er-do-well would get some horrible supernatural come-uppance.
And you are forgetting one major thing - up until my generation, comics WERE considered "for kids". Exclusively. But my generation never fucking grew the fuck up, because we're a bunch of fucking slackers. :P
Also, the Hayes and Comics Codes weren't meant to make everything "for kids" (in the sense of, say, Sesame Street or Saturday Morning Cartoons, it was meant to make everything "one size fits all", that is, appealing to adults as well as safe for kids. Which actually forced writers to be clever and use their brains a bit, rather than just spewing out blatant sex, gore, and fart jokes, because it's easy.
Hell, one of the funniest moments in FAMILY television is one of the dirtiest jokes ever - the "Finger Prints" joke in original Animaniacs ... TOTALLY flew over the heads of my own children as I sat there laughing my butt off ... after a beat or two while I processed what they had just said.
You can have interesting things and multiple genres under the code (though it STILL did decimate many genres and is the reason why the "safe genre" of Superheros ended up monopolizing things ) but the point still stands that it still stifled artistic creativity and i can never agree to that. For example you look at many anime and manga that are timeless masterpieces and cult classics and a lot could not have been made under the CCA . Also i dont know why you think adults liking comics is "not growing up". Comics is an art form like anything else there is literally no reason why it should be "only be for kids"