Originally Posted by
Billy Ruffian
Ah. I have a soft spot in my heart for 'funny books.'
As I recall, one of my anthropology profs once told me over drinks that during WWII, several comic books were issued to US forces in the Pacific theatre, depicting American soldiers interacting with the indigenous populations of the territories they liberated, in part to educate them on cultural taboos that existed.
Apparently it was done in the comic format because it was; appealing to look at, easy to understand, didn't require a high standard of literacy and was relatively cheap to mass-produce.
Comics have often been overlooked as a 'juvenile' or 'low' artform ever since they were first published, but as this clearly shows, you can't beat a well-written and reasonably well drawn comic book.