Thinking through some of the conversations that @streakofpith held as the comics laureate, in regards to how to grow the medium. I keep coming back to the idea that we need to teach visual literacy. I think it ties in heavily with @jabberworks’s #picturesmeanbusiness campaign.

I think that lack of credit for illustrators, lack of coverage for children’s books and comics, and frequent the dismissal of comics a medium all share the same roots. I think that heavily illustrated mediums are often dismissed, or looked down on as ‘they’re for kids’.

And I think there’s two big issues at the root of that:
- Our society’s idea that beyond basic needs, children are to be seen and not heard, and work that made for the m doesn’t matter
- And, by extension, as pictures are for children, mediums defined by pictures aren’t worthy