Sunday, 21 July 2024

Confessions of a Comic Book Reader


I still remember that in my childhood each comic book had its own vibe, a distinct vibe. This particular thing can only be felt by someone who has read and owned comic books. I don't feel the soul in comic books anymore, and it can be because either the fault is in me and that I have become immune to that form of storytelling or it may be that quality of comic books has depreciated. The last comic book that I really felt was a comic book magazine in early 2010s by the name of Comic Jump. It had multiple serialised comic strips. I had a vast collection of comics when I was a kid, though my family not realising what a treasure it was gave it away to raddiwala. 90s were a great time for comic books, and late 2000s and 2010s saw a growth in comic book pop culture, though it all died down in 2013 and 2014. Can it be a coincidence that the downfall of newly launched comic book companies coincided with government change. It can be. Maybe internet, social media, video games and OTT swallowed the comic book culture. Though people who are interested in comic books are still interested in them. It was during corona period that PDFs of old 90s comics started circulating on WhatsApp and new Facebook groups and communities started to form around comics. A lot of people who had forgotten their childhoods and comics remembered them during the boredom of corona period. I promote reading comics. I tell every kid I meet to read comics and I would send comic books to kids of my friends and family as soon as they grow old enough to read. The comic book Facebook groups and communities are now avenues of leg pulling and backbiting but you live in this country long enough, you realise that it's the normal pattern. People are made to live in a invisible psychological curfew and no communities revolving around anything are allowed to exist, unless it is organised crime, if these people do not belong to upper class. Anyway it was good to see resurgence of comic book culture, even for sometime, during corona period. Comic books make kids imaginative. I owe my imagination to reading books and comic books and hence I promote comic books and tell every kid, who I can tell, and whose parents can afford it to read comics books. 

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