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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Get rid of capeshit and open comics up to multiple genres, like back before the CCA. The quality of storytelling and art will improve when creators who don't want to soil their reputation with capeshit see that they can make good work that will be taken seriously as literature.
Try to get comics back into grocery stores, convenience stores, local places. Comics have become so niche that the only way to really get them is by going direct market. You're never going to get anyone aside from the enthusiast audience that way, and you want more than emotionally stunted, middle-aged men to read your work. Or at least I do.
Social Media Influencers. You may hate the idea, but as a marketing tool, they work.
It would take a lot of work and probably decades of good stories and sound business management to resurrect not only the medium of comic books, but its reputation and cultural cache as well. While I think Hashbrown Comics Gate is kinda silly, I will say that I'm far more interested in what that crowd is putting out than anything Marvel, DC, or Image have put out in at least a decade. At this point, I'm wondering when the indies will figure out that they can make their own labels and get the cultural ball rolling on the resurrection of comics.
What's the CCA? The Comics Code? Hell, even when it was a thing, there were horror and war comics, sci-fi/UFO stuff, Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck, Scamp; westerns, and even the occasional Weird West tales (not to mention Weird War Tales itself ... speaking of which, I find it kind of gross that they mashed Sgt Rock in with the Monstrous Regiment; those were two VERY different comics, with Rock always leaning heavily towards, you know, historical realism and weight.) Dark Shadows, Boris Karloff's Tales of Mystery, Cain and Abel's comics, etc. Basically, "Gold Key" was my childhood.
I read all kinds of comics as a kid, and the superhero ones were my least favourite.
Kind of a shame to hear that the superhero shit is all that's left.
The Comic Code Authority and Hays Code weren't the inherent evil that people make it to be. Movies and comics were almost entirely dedicated to porn at the time they were created.
Hey, you want a "for kids" story, told under the Comics Code? It was a story of the OSS in one of the World War 2 anthologies I mentioned, can't remember which one now, or the title of the story, but it went like this (more or less, it's been at least 40 years, you see):
It wasn't even about an OSS agent, it was about Hitler's own favourite spy, whom funny mustache man himself dispatches to spy on the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. During his (the spy's) tenure, he winds up getting close to some family, and "goes native", converting to Judaism as he is sent to Auschwitz. While he's there, he's given a chance to get out - by, yes, Hitler himself, who found out about the spy's treachery. The last time you see the spy is when he gets on his knees and prays in Yiddish.
The final scene shows Hitler reading in his study, a little wry smile on his face, by the light of a lamp, the shade of which is kinda pinkish and has a number tattooed on it ....
That just sounds like old traditional fairy tales plot twist ending for kids when kids were tougher. Similar to The Brothers Grimm stories. Also these things were made despite of the code, not because of. And many genres were destroyed and many things got dumbed down because the code stifled creativity so much. And if you look at many anime and manga that are timeless masterpieces and cult classics a lot could not have been made under the CCA .