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Article: Eek! Sob! It's the death of comics! (the loss of innocence, a sense of humor and enjoyment in today's heavy-handed comic strips) (Cover Story)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- August 29, 1994
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'LEAPING LIZARDS!" sounds too cheerful. "Good grief!" might be more appropriate. Look what's happened to the funnies. We should look seriously because this is a serious matter, touching on the state of the nation.
There are three peculiarly American art forms: the Western, the musical, and the comic strip; all of which, having come to full flower not so long ago, when they seemed to represent much that lay close to the American heart and much that the rest of the world admired in America, have manifestly degenerated. Of these three, comics have been the least studied but are by no means the least significant, if only because they came into, still do come into, ...
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