Adult comics
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- "The history of adult comics as commerical medium must be traced to the 1960s with Italian fumetti neri such as Diabolik; French female superhero spoof Barbarella by Jean-Claude Forest and to the American Underground comix movement with authors such as Robert Crumb." --Sholem Stein
- adult - 1962 - comics - erotic comics
Adult comics are comic books intended for adults. They may contain material that might be considered obscene, profane, immoral, and even pornographic, in contrast to the traditionally considered kid-friendly mainstream world of comics. Many adult comics, however, feature none of this, and simply tell stories of a more mature nature, as opposed to the fantasy elements of most comics.
The term "adult comics" generally refers to those with explicit sexual content, and is usually separated from comics labeled for "mature readers", although not always. The "mature readers" label is a relatively new invention (although adult comics have been around for decades), and has gained more acceptance in the average comicbook reading demographics which are now aged far older than they were before the 1990s.
In Japan, adult comics are more common and more perceived to belong to mainstream culture than in western countries.
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