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Honest question: how did "American comics" become synonymous with "superhero comics"? this may have been more of a thing in the past, but a lot of my friends and family still seem unaware that there exist comics about other subject matters, or consider them to be "alternative" or secondary to "regular" superhero comics. At the same time they're aware of cartoons and animated films in different genres, even though cartoons came after comics and were based directly on them, and there were plenty of American cartoonists in the days before animation that made all kinds of comics in different styles and genres. What's your opinion ?
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>>93312575
The same reason why everyone in the world thinks of tentacle porn when they hear "anime".
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>>93312575
Well, the American comic market has a shit ton of capes and the two biggest comic companies there are cape companies.
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>>93312575
Government interference with Comics Code Authority killed off most competition. Horror and crime comics gone, romance and drama comics cut to Archie romance style at best, and most comedy restricted to humour clean enough to eat off of (Mad dodged that bullet by stop being a comic and becoming Mad Magazine).
So capes got to stick around but we're restricted too, but also were backed with cartoons or radio shows and other mediums boosting their relevance.
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>>93312575
>how did "American comics" become synonymous with "superhero comics"?
Though the retardation of normalfags and the massive popularization of capeshit.
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>>93312575
Because it pretty much is.
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>>93312624
This is the real answer along with the advent of television taking up a larger part of adult entertainment. Baby boomers were at the right age to mostly want child audience superhero stuff that kept the market afloat but narrowed the scope a lot.
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>>93312624
This. Seduction of the Innocent, the Senate hearings on graphic comicbooks, and the creation of the Comics Code Authority were they key moments. Comics were given strict constraints so that the government wouldn't go after them anymore, and it pretty much killed the crime/horror books that used to be popular once.
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