A Moment of Silence

Individualizing Cultural Trauma

Abstract

How often are comic book readers confronted with the phrase “Aren’t you too old to read comic books?” or with being called “geek” or “nerd” for liking them? Also, in academic circles, even though the numbers of academic studies on comic books has increased in recent years, it is not yet established and unified as a critical field, partially because of its multimodality, but also because of its conceptualization as being a lowbrow genre in the literary field.