Comics were essential to me as a child. It was a time when parents did not approve of comics, and I still regret a beautifully illustrated version of Treasure Island, pictures by Dudley D. Watkins. With autism tendencies, I learned to interpret facial expressions from comic exaggerations.
Me too. We used to have a used comics store where you could trade in and buy more comic books. A shopping bag full of comics lasted a week or more. Cheap entertainment. Miss it.
I don’t read as many comics as I did when I was 13, but there’s still a lot of amazing content for adults. If those of you feeling nostalgic want to dive back in, now is a great time!
Two pieces from Mad that I've never forgotten were Andy Griffith's "What it Was, Was Football" (1958) and "43 Man Squamish" (1965). Great stuff. Griffith also recorded the football bit.
So did I and so did my brothers! My father would come home on Friday nights with a handful of comic books for us, and the ones I remember best were The Illustrated Classics. We all read Mad Magazine together. Perhaps that's why I read voraciously today.
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