Posted: 15 January 2006 at 6:27am | IP Logged | 4
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Not dumb at all, Wayne. No more than I should be
considered "dumb" if I reveal an ignorance about
stamp collecting.Comics have been a niche
market for a long, long time, now. Factor in, too, that
even if Carson read comics as a kid he probably
thought as most civilians tended to, that he stopped
reading because comics went away. I cannot
count the number of people my age and older who I
have met over the years who, when told what I do for
a living, showed great surprise. "Those are still
being published?" Johnny Carson worked in an
industry in which "comic" has a very specific and
much more prominent definition than what
springs immediately to our minds. For him to think
of that kind of "comic" before thinking of comic books
-- which, additionally, would likely be the term that
would be most familiar to him -- is not "dumb" at all.
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