Comics were created and have been around for quite a while. It started out as just random photos and pictures on Newspapers that publishers and journalists use as a method to express and voice their opinions about a certain problem or issue that is currently happen at the time. Moving forward to the distance future, people started interested and into cartoons/comics more than word writings and readings on Newspapers and because of this certain reason the popularity of comics increases and has turned into a worldwide gender of TV films.
It is mention in the reading by Herge (2005; 1935) that comics started out being printed in newspapers so they were intended to read only by elders because this is quite a hobbies for old people at this time, but as time passes more and more comics were created and it catches the interest of youngsters (younger generation) this is linked or related to the famous comic which is Tin Tin by Herge states that comics can be for both children and adults gender but they have different views or interpretations of the story, for example when a child reads The Adventures of Tin Tin they might view this as an amazing time that Tintin had, meeting new friends and colorful experiences that he when through during his travel to India and China but an adult might interpret this as this times of war between Japanese and Chinese people, the insight of the country as well as some of the political messages that is highlighted throughout the story.
To summaries this I agree that comics are for adults and children, its just that both gender have different interpretations individually. Children have wide and more imagination than adults they tend to think more of science fiction or nonfiction. Children are more adventures and interpret things as beautiful and fun for example: female children imagine themselves as princesses or fairies and all sorts of magical comic beings whereas male children may imagine themselves as pirates or super-human's, heroes etc. As for adults they think more of the importance of rules and protocols of the world and political events.
Reference List:
Farr, Michael. (1991). Introduction. In Tintin: the complete companion (pp.8-9). London: John Murray.
Thanks Faamoa. Not a bad post. There are some problems with the clarity of your language. Look at using shorter sentences. Also try to include a refrence to the primary text in each post.
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