I learned to love reading through 1960s comic books, moved into Hardy Boys and Scholastic book fair books, then on to Sherlock Holmes, Wells, Stoker, Heinlein, Clarke, Bradbury ... so many more. I wouldn't be a writer unless I started with comic books.
Keith Roysdon
Agree with this 100 percent. Will also say, as someone who grew up to be a professor of literature: for what it's worth, I spent almost all my reading time - and I read a lot - reading comics and genre fiction. Whatever kids want to read, that's phenomenal.
Jeremy Dauber
I see a lot of bookish news on my feed, but I ignore pretty much all of it except this: only 31% of US 4th-graders read at grade level.
Format, delivery system, how books get monetized will not matter if people cannot or do not read.
Support every system that gets books to kids.
