Over at Inside Bay Area, they’re singing the praises of their local comic shop:

There are few places where senior citizens can be kids again. But it’s possible at The Comic Shop in San Leandro, where super heroes are timeless.

For kids of all ages, if they love comic books, The Comic Shop is their haven. New and old comic books abound, and dominate the premises, unlike other comic book stores which also feature games, videos and baseball cards.

The Kane County Chronicle, meanwhile, sez comics are hip!

“It’s hard to tell what’s the chicken and what’s the egg here,” said Barbara Fein, assistant professor of educational technology at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. “Are they getting more popular because there’s more of them being published, or are more of them being published because the kids are so precocious about them? I don’t think it matters. The bottom line is that libraries, both public and school, have accepted them as a valid form of literature.”

The Daily Chronicle looks at a graphic novel discussion group for kids at their local library:

As the discussion started, the kids all interjected what they liked or disliked. It got loud and often went off on tangents as students started to talk about different superheroes.
But their discussion also covered the civil rights movement, which came up when the readers talked about the mutants in the novel being disliked because they were diffent.

There also was some history thrown in when Captain America showed up in the novel to fight Nazis.

“Who couldn’t get on board with fighting the Nazis?” asked Steven Torres-Roman, a reference and young-adult librarian who runs the book group.

Finally, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette doles out the love for Mary Worth:

The slightly doughy but innately elegant Mary embodies a civility that is fading out of real life. Moreover, the very pace of the strip conveys something profound: that time is a variable concept, regulated by perception. In this sense, the comic strip “Mary Worth” is more interactive and transformative than the most cutting-edge IT entertainment. Stories take months or entire seasons to unfold; a single afternoon inside Mary’s condo complex can translate to a week’s worth of strips. The reader must slow down — almost on a metabolic level — to get in sync with the proceedings.

Thanks to Dirk, who pointed me to just about all of these.

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