As I write this, I’m in Belgium. Yes, this is relevant. At Carrefour, which is sort of the Belgian equivalent of a Super Target store, I saw something that really surprised me. In the Books and Magazines section, there’s an entire aisle devoted to comics. They’re books, what we’d call […]
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