Those of us who have chosen the comics field as a pursuit beyond simple collecting and reading often find ourselves having to battle the prejudice of all comics as children's fare. I have often wondered why has been so hard for us to break the stereotype. Is it a nomenclature problem? We call them comic books but they are singularly too thin to be a book. They are, in fact more like magazines. Marvel has alternately referred to their books as magazines for some time. But odes this help us or hurt us? Magazines are generally seen as disposable things (although I keep many of mine, but I'm odd). But magazines are often revered or reviled for their content, not as a genre as comic books often are.
So are books or magazines better? Is there another alternative? Will it matter?
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