![]() ![]() As I paged through a book so thoroughly enmeshed in history and science fiction by turns, I marveled that something this accomplished is just so casually available to kids these days. I was probably thinking about all of this as I read Red Scare by Liam Francis Walsh, in large part because he’s set the book right smack dab in 1953 ( Seduction of the Innocent was published in 1954). Now more high quality comics for kids are being published than ever before, but even at their peak they still can hardly touch kids’ insatiable demand. ![]() It took decades upon decades for graphic novels to pull themselves up out of the morass of ill-favored commentary and start winning major awards. To what extent has the age of disparaging comics passed? In the old days, books like The Seduction of the Innocent by Frederic Wertham argued that comics were a morally repugnant form of entertainment. ![]()
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