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 A
private collection of comics and boys' magazines from 1950 to
1980, owned by Niel Hendriksz, is currently on display at the JS
Gericke Library, in front of the Interlending Section
Comics first emerged as a distinct entertainment medium in
the 1930's and is commonly defined as "... they communicate narratives
through a unique combination of text and sequential illustration that
works within its own aesthetic vocabulary".
Although
closely associated with superheroes, comics have explored virtually
every genre of popular entertainment, including adventure, horror,
mystery, crime, romance, the western, and humour.
They offer a revealing fun-house mirror of life, not necessarily as it
was or even as it should be, but as young people have paid to see it.
In this respect, comic books have long predicted the course of
consumer culture, a culture so advanced now that it becomes
increasingly difficult to discern the reality of our world from the
array of images that represent it in our popular culture.
(From: Comic book nation, Bradford W. Wright)
Niel can be contacted at tel.: 808-4401 or e-mail:
nh@sun.ac.za
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