So this part of the site is going to be about comics, kind of a arcane cross-section of literature that is too often overlooked as something just about super-heroes or funny animals and that comics are a genre rather than story-telling method. Sort of like saying all of American literature is essentially described by the overwhelming success of Dan Brown or John Grisham novels. Even the recently launched New York Times Graphic Books best Seller List, a great help in exposing people to comics, is top-heavy with the mainstream power fantasies of the major publishing houses in American comics that are crossing over into summer movie blockbusters. It is, after all, a “best sellers list” and so represents what most people, no matter what their age group, are purchasing.

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