Hi,

Taking a little break here so trying to be as brief as possible. Werther was pretty far back timewise, but he did impact directly research and attitudes towards comics. Part of that I think is because so little research was done on comics at the time he published, that his studies were used by researchers. His stuff is still being cited. It would be nice to have review boards, look at research and rate it by today's standards as hopelessly flawed, and that rating is next to the article.

I know that the web has been trying out a standard of ranked by reliability tags. I just don't know how reliable that is. I have also looked at peer-reviewed and wonder how relevant peer-reviewed papers regarding comics are. Are the peers into comics?

The state of bookstores and libraries is stone age behind in cataloging and accurately displaying their Graphic Novels, Comic Novels for general retrieval.

I am putting comics in my tag so that I can find this again.