Douglas Wolk Reading Comics Analysis

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In Douglas Wolk’s book “Reading Comics”, Wolk gives an incredible insight on how comic books and comic book readers are portrayed in today’s culture. Wolk’s passion for comic books and the artistic aspect of them, and also about how people are judged for being comic book fans. Wolk states “Reading comics, or not reading them, often presents itself as taking some kind of stand; in picking up something with words and pictures to read you become the sort of person who reads comics, and that can be a badge of pride or shame or both” (394). Wolk discusses the way people become either ashamed or proud to be comic book enthusiast. Wolk also writes about how underappreciated comics are, and what kind of judgment people might have about a person comic