Comics Trash Or Treasures?

In Japon, they call them manga, in Latin America, historietas, in Italy, fumetti, in Brazil, historia em quadrinbos, and in U.S, comics.
But motter what you call them, comics are a favorite source of reading pleasure in many parts of the wordl.
In cose youre wandering how popular comics are, the bestselling comic title in the U.S sells about 4.5 million copies a year. All of mexicos comic title together sell over 7 millon copies a week. But Japon is buy for the leading publisher of comics in the wordl.
Manga account for nearly 40 percent of all the books and magazines published in Japon each year. And few magazines of any kind in the worls can match this numbe: shonen jump, the leading comic title, has a circulation of 6.5 million copies for week.
Ever since comics first appeared, there have been people who have criticized them. In the 1940 and 50, many people believed that comics werw in moral and that they caused bad behavior among young people. Even today, many question whether young people should read them at all.
They argue that readind comics encourges bat reading habits. But some educators see comics as away to get teenagers to choose readind instead of television and videogames. And becauese of the art, a number of educators have argued that comics are a great way to get children to think creatively.
More recent research has suggested that the combination of visuals and text in comics many be one reason young people handle computers and related sofware so easily. In many places, comics have been a conveniet way to comunicate social or political information.
For example, in the 1990, comic werw used by the Brazilian heahth ministry to comminicate imformation about AIDS.
In Japon, the education ministry call comics "a part of Japond" national culture, recognized and higly regarded abroad. Comics are increasingly being used far educational purposes, and many publisher there see them as a useful way of teaching history and other subjects.
No matter how you view them, comics remain a guilty pleasure for millions wordl wide.