Golden, Silver, Bronze, & Modern Age of Comics?
November 282009
Gold: 1933-1955.
Silver: 1956-1972.
Bronze: 1973-1983.
Modern: 1984-present.
Let’s say that GA went on for 22 years, SA went on for 16, & BA went on for 10. In the future, when Modern Age comics are too old to be considered Modern Age, will they be Brass, Iron, or Stone Age? & when is the cut-off line? The comics I read in the 90s were kid-stuff to what’s out now, so have we already missed the mark?
Why are they going downhill in time when the Golden Age comics were so terrible & the Silver Age comics were embarrassing & loaded with propaganda? Shouldn’t the Golden Age be the Stone Age of comics?
Well, the people that made these designations are older people, not from our generation.
We may think some of the Golden age stuff is terrible, but to older people the golden age comics are "nostalgic". Everything contains history that should be learned about and preserved…but I have never agreed with this system for naming things.
Once we reach something new that we have to define an even more modern era, I think it will just change in general–maybe to like the "online age" if webcomics dominate it, or name it after whatever icon that defines it.
Or it could be like they have done in the film industry and had a"post-modern" period added after the "modern" age.
Just remember, history is full of relative definitions. (I mean, would you want to live the rest of your life in the Golden age of Greece or Rome? I know I wouldn’t) In normal historical time we have the Stone age, followed by the Bronze age, followed by the Iron age…and these stages are all named for the types of tools that people used in civilizations of each time period, not necessarily for a gradient of best to worst.
Perhaps one day, all of these gold-silver-bronze aluminum or plastic-whatever titles will fall to the wayside and they will just be named for what they contain. I suppose we will just have to wait and see. Don’t get too bent out of shape over it…sometimes historians are just a little weird about stuff like this. ^_^
November 29th, 2009 at 12:42 am
Well, the people that made these designations are older people, not from our generation.
We may think some of the Golden age stuff is terrible, but to older people the golden age comics are "nostalgic". Everything contains history that should be learned about and preserved…but I have never agreed with this system for naming things.
Once we reach something new that we have to define an even more modern era, I think it will just change in general–maybe to like the "online age" if webcomics dominate it, or name it after whatever icon that defines it.
Or it could be like they have done in the film industry and had a"post-modern" period added after the "modern" age.
Just remember, history is full of relative definitions. (I mean, would you want to live the rest of your life in the Golden age of Greece or Rome? I know I wouldn’t) In normal historical time we have the Stone age, followed by the Bronze age, followed by the Iron age…and these stages are all named for the types of tools that people used in civilizations of each time period, not necessarily for a gradient of best to worst.
Perhaps one day, all of these gold-silver-bronze aluminum or plastic-whatever titles will fall to the wayside and they will just be named for what they contain. I suppose we will just have to wait and see. Don’t get too bent out of shape over it…sometimes historians are just a little weird about stuff like this. ^_^
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November 29th, 2009 at 1:11 am
I think the modern age name will stick, and eventually in the future the current comics will be called a new age. Like post-modern or something more interesting than that
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