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[Alucard]

I got this idea from the San Diego Comic Con thread.

Really, comics aren't altogether geared towards kids anymore. A lot of the content on the shelves is for mature readers, although there are still books available like Mary Jane which little Johnny can pick up. (Mary Jane pimping done for this thread) So, who reads comics? Whenever I'm at the shop I usually see guys around my age (23) or older browsing the books while the kids are all playing Yu-Gi-Yo, Magic, or Pokemon tournaments. So what's the average age of a comic reader? How old are the people on this board who read them?...(Humour me...leaving for night shift in 20 minutes)

 

[Felidae_Khrall]

Mentally or Physically ?

 

[nomoment]

I'd say late 20s, early 30s is the biggest demographic.

 

[Incognito]

I'd say late 20s, early 30s is the biggest demographic.

Wrong. Try 12.

 

[Willco]

Wrong. Try 12.

Maybe for manga, but certainly not comics.

 

[MASB]

Almost everyone I see that read/buy comics are between 18-40. Sometimes I wonder if comics will 'die off' in a sense after this generation, as I almost never see kids reading comics. And usually, comics aren't something you magically discover and like when you're an adult. And like some have said, there's not necessarily a lot of comics out there that are appropriate or interesting for/to kids (by interesting, I mean variety. If you don't like superheroes or manga, you're out of luck for the most part).

 

[XS+]

I was an avid reader of comics, manga and graphic novels when I was 8-14, now in my 20s I don't touch the stuff. Am I The Anomaly?

 

[Alucard]

I was an avid reader of comics, manga and graphic novels when I was 8-14, now in my 20s I don't touch the stuff. Am I The Anomaly?

Well...comics were pretty shitty in the mid and late nineties. Now is a great time to be a reader though.

 

[XS+]

Well...comics were pretty shitty in the mid and late nineties. Now is a great time to be a reader though.

I read comics in the mid 80s to early 90s. That's right I'm ooooooooollld.

 

[FnordChan]

News Flash: manga are comics. Thanks to the manga boom, I'd say the median age has dropped down to, say, 13 from, say, 25.

FnordChan

 

[Chesapeake Silt]

I actually never read comics as a kid, outside of a couple stray issues of X-Men (after watching the cartoon on Fox). I started reading them for real when I was in college... that fateful trip to the bookstore when I grabbed Year One and Dark Knight Returns on an impulse. Haven't stopped reading comix since.