Something Lost, Something Found (for Spike)

This article only confirms something that all of us who love comics have known for years - there aren't many children's comics left.

Hey kids! No comics!

“Children did not abandon comics. Comics, in their drive to attain respect and artistic accomplishment, abandoned children. The adult reader of comic books has always been the Holy Grail, the promised land, the imagined lover who will greet us, at the end of the journey, with open arms, with acceptance, with approval. … Comics have always been an arriviste art form. And all upstarts are to some degree ashamed of their beginnings. But frankly, I don’t think that’s what’s going on in comics anymore. I think we have simply lost the habit of telling stories to children. And how sad is that?”

-Michael Chabon, quoted in the above article