Posted on 01/26/2011 9:43:43 AM PST by Academiadotorg
With a title like “Graphic Aging,” one might think that such a panel at the 2011 Annual Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention was meant to discuss porn for the elderly. However—thankfully—the Graphic Aging panel at this year’s MLA Convention had nothing to do with inappropriate images of nude grandparents, and everything to do with comic books.
There’s a question parents and students alike may be wondering: why study comic books? Speaker Christopher Pizzino of University of Georgia addressed this question in his lecture entitled “Comics and the Problem of Bildungsroman: Charles Burns’s Black Hole” when he read aloud from the preamble of the 1954 Comics Code. The first line of the preamble reads, “The comic-book medium, having come of age on the American cultural scene, must measure up to its responsibilities.” In other words, comic books are a hallmark of American culture. Studying comics is, according to the professors who teach comics studies, a study of culture—because of the cultural significance of comics to our nation.
“Comics studies have come of age… and we know this because MLA gave them their own discussion group,” Pizzino said during his lecture.
His presentation on the comic book “Black Hole” by Charles Burns focused on the idea of aging in comic books. “Black Hole” is about a mysterious STD that disfigures teens and adolescents. According to Pizzino, the writer of the comic later said that the disease was essentially a metaphor for puberty, or the act of growing up, and how some people recover from it and some people are permanently damaged from their teenage years. In the comic, the disease made the teens afflicted look old—their flesh would hang off their bodies and they would lose their hair. This is an example of graphic aging, or aging in graphics.
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Now “graphic aging” at the MILF convention, OTOH... ;)
When OBama’s coming hyperinflation kicks in - baby boomers and seniors will be searching for dog food for dinner. Porn will be a low priority for them.
Let em eat cake cause 50% of baby boomers voted for him and 43% of seniors voted for him. It is going to be like the USSR when it imploded. Coming probably mid 2012.
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