Unsurprisingly, the maleness of comics culture has been self-perpetuating: if reading (or collecting) comics is understood as “something that guys do,” then the woman in the comics store is an anomaly.

Douglas Wolk
  • in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306815095?ie=UTF8&tag=quooncom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0306815095" target="blank"><em>Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean</em></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=quooncom-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0306815095" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />
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