Writings In Kid's Stuff, By Michael Chabon

In “Kid’s Stuff” by Michael Chabon, the author is trying to explain to the audience how the writing of comics must be changed in order to appeal to modern day children. Originally, the goal of a comic book writer was to appeal to adults and to get readers to think of comics as a legitimate source of literature instead of something that kids read to pass the time. In the process of doing so, kids stopped reading comics as much. While some adults picked comics up, the sales numbers went down over time. When examining the question of how to make comics popular again, to the author, the answer lies in once again making comics for kids. From the first days of comics and gearing them towards adults, to the decline of comics over time, it is important to rewrite today’s comics so that children will bring comic books back to the sales they used to achieve.
Ever since comics first became popular in the 1930s, they were viewed as something for children’s entertainment. Comics were fun to read, but served no real purpose as a source of literature. It is because of this that comics were not read widely and were not viewed as anything but entertainment. In order to fix this authors at the time decided to sophisticate comics by including more complex stories and figurative language. …show more content…
At first, authors tried to appeal to adults, but over time this caused children to lose interest in the more popular comics and refer back to the cartoons that children love. To make comics popular once again, comic books need to be written with what kids want in mind. The future of comic book popularity is in the hands of children. In “Kid’s Stuff” by Michael Chabon, the author believes that once authors appeal to kids’ desires, comics will once again be a beloved form of