Kids Stuff Chaubon Analysis

In Chabon’s “Kids’ Stuff”, he talks about how comic books have changed over the years. Chabon discusses how the comic books have changed in their illustrations and their audience. He mentions how the general audience has changed throughout the years. He also says that children have grown less fond of comic books. He also says that comic books should try to go back to their roots. Chabon’s main claim is, “I suggest that a publisher should try putting out a truly thrilling, honestly observed and remembered, richly imagined, involved and yet narratively straight forward comic book for children, about children” (920). Chabon successfully proves his claim because he backs it all up with some good evidence. In the begging of Chabon’s proposal, he provides some comics that children used to read when he was a child. Chabon mentions the comics to prove that children read them back in the day. He say, “For at least the first forty years of their existence, from the Paleozoic pre-Superman era of Famous Funnies (1933) and More Fun Comics (1936), comic books were widely viewed, even by those who adored them, as juvenile: the ultimate greasy kids’ stuff*” (912). Chabon mentions that the first forty years since the comics where invented, they were read by most people that bought them, and enjoyed. He …show more content…
He mentions several times that the comic books are changing from being for kids, to being more mature. He mentions how they are starting to sell less. He also says that they are getting a lot darker in the stories they tell. He tells us as well that they were very entertaining in the beginning but people are not reading them as much as before. Chabon states many times that comic books have changed, but not the way they should. He would’ve liked if they were made more for children. With all of the evidence he provided, he proves his main claim about them needing to change in a more different