Comics

ComicsIt is Fashionable, in Our Present Intellectual Climate, to denigrate, pooh-pooh and otherwise put down anything that has a purely visceral appeal. We are grown sophisticated – willing to chuckle but afraid to laugh. For when we laugh, we lose control: off guard and helpless, bellies aching, eyes full of tears, we step back a million years, naked and mole-blind, to join our forefathers in their caves. This, apparently, is a bad scene. It is not enough to be human any more. In this age of su...