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Forbidden, discouraged or dismissed by adults, comic books have always been schoolyard currency, bought and swapped by children and read avidly by nerds, whether eager or reluctant readers. (It was one way for the bookish to get the other kids to like them; trust me, I know.)
But as Françoise Cleary, the art editor at The New Yorker and founder of the Toon Books line of comic books for children, has pointed out, children got left behind when comics became comix and superheroes acquired