1 / 5

???

???. Anybody that goes out and kills someone because he read a comic book, is a simple-minded idiot. Sound silly? So does your item . Brian Arthur McLaughlin (age 11), Cresskill, New Jersey, Letter to Fredric Wertham , 23 April 1954.

oihane
Download Presentation

???

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. ??? Children, Comics, Critics, and the Research | Carol L. Tilley, PhD | GSLIS Research Showcase 2013

  2. Anybody that goes out and kills someone because he read a comic book, is a simple-minded idiot. Sound silly? So does your item. Brian Arthur McLaughlin (age 11), Cresskill, New Jersey, Letter to Fredric Wertham, 23 April 1954 Children, Comics, Critics, and the Researcher | Carol L. Tilley, PhD | GSLIS Research Showcase 2013

  3. I am as honest and as clean as you would want your own son to be. I am speaking for the majority, the comic book readers… Brian Mulholland (age 15), Erlton, New Jersey, Letter to Senate Subcommittee, September 1954 Children, Comics, Critics, and the Researcher | Carol L. Tilley, PhD | GSLIS Research Showcase 2013

  4. Do you suggest that all children give up comic books (our amusement) and turn now to cigarettes, adult crime and sex books, and liquor (adult amusement)? Lyn Crawford (age 13), Atlanta, Georgia, Letter to Wertham, 4 May 1954 Children, Comics, Critics, and the Researcher | Carol L. Tilley, PhD | GSLIS Research Showcase 2013

  5. We don’t buy these mags because we have a thirst for blood, we buy them for the stories, the snap endings, the artwork, and because they deal with the unknown. Philip Proctor (age 14), New York, New York Letter to US Senate Sub-Committee on Juvenile Delinquency, June 1954 Children, Comics, Critics, and the Researcher | Carol L. Tilley, PhD | GSLIS Research Showcase 2013

More Related