General research about reading comics

Most of Italian children and teens are readers of comic books

But let’s see the results of the most important inquiries:

Researcher  Year  City                   Sample                   Readers

Ossicini A.      1952  Rome                  Kids aged 8/13                  92%

Quadrio A.      1966  Milan                   Teens                               69%

Genovesi G.    1971  Fidenza, Parma   Children and teens 8/16   86%

Minelli M.       1992  Rome                   Teens                               82%    

According these researchers, both, female and male, read many comic books when they’re twelve, and then, when they’re about fifteen they read less comics; if people aged 12 reads comics finding a very good way of psycological decharge and a way to search a model, for people aged 15 it isn’t enough, because interests and opportunities become larger, oriented to relationships and other activities: reading comics alone and identification models offered by comic books becomes not enough to get satisfaction.      

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