> Maybe you're right that non-young-male-Americans are genetically incapable of liking comic books as a medium
It doesn't have to be genetics. It could just be that the opportunity for a cultural development that would favor broader popularity of comic books in the US was missed -- the development of that culture is not independent of things like the currently existing set of other media options, pre-existing cultural perceptions of pictorial media, etc.
The cultural popularity and associations of particular art forms are path dependent.
It doesn't have to be genetics. It could just be that the opportunity for a cultural development that would favor broader popularity of comic books in the US was missed -- the development of that culture is not independent of things like the currently existing set of other media options, pre-existing cultural perceptions of pictorial media, etc.
The cultural popularity and associations of particular art forms are path dependent.