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Comic Books Are Universal, and Successful Ones Make Lots of Money
No longer confined to small stands at train stations, comic books are big business as their characters make their way into highly successful films.
Comics are big business, but not simply as entertainment, because comic books are also making a name for themselves in education. Statistics show that the market is growing in many ways, including in elementary, college, and medical education. I don’t think anyone wants to believe that medical students or pre-med students are studying anatomy or any other aspect of medicine from a comic, but they are.
Teachers have been utilizing comics in the classroom for more than 60 years. The teachers who use comics in their curricula say that they raise student engagement on an individual basis and make studying easy.
In the United States, comic book and graphic novel sales reached a new high of over 94 million copies in 2021. The year’s sales were higher than any previous five years combined for fiction book sales, and they were nearly identical to the 99 million copies that were sold to comic book stores in 2016. Comic book retailers have purchased about 881 million comic books over the past ten years, or an average of 88.1 million copies.
Markets like this are desirable for those with artistic talent, imagination, and…
