Let's get serious, for a moment, about the funnies. Start with the funny page (or pages, if you're lucky) of the local paper and move on down to the rack of flashy pulp enshrined at every 7-Eleven store on earth. Comics are, next to television, among the massest and crassest of the mass arts. And, freed from the expense of TV production and thus relatively free of TV's brain-police, comics are often much closer to the bone of public consciousness than their more respectable kindred arts.
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