: ‘The Archies’: Re-reading the comics from everyone’s adolescence before the Bollywood version #IndiaNEWS “In the ’70s when we were growing up�, my mother tells me, “The cool kids read

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‘The Archies’: Re-reading the comics from everyone’s adolescence before the Bollywood version #IndiaNEWS
“In the ’70s when we were growing up�, my mother tells me, “The cool kids read Archie.�For my mother’s generation, the comics were an aspirational cultural item – too expensive for everyone to own, but still popular enough for its panels to be printed in the newspapers and secondhand copies to be circulated amongst students. The series depicted a charmed life in the US, where teenagers didn’t need to wear school uniforms, everyone dated freely, and children could hang out without any parental supervision. By the time I reached high school, they were one of the many American products that were around us. You could find the Archie comics alongside stacks of news magazines and Hindi crime thrillers at any railway station bookstore. While they weren’t as novel as before, Archie comics were still one of the only graphic narratives available for people who weren’t interested in superheroes and really gritty, edgy comics like Batman. They were sweet, colourful, and funny. And unlike other serialised stories, there was no real urgency to read the comics in sequential order. It didn’t matter if you missed one, or many episodes. Not much changed in Riverdale over the years.Recurring characters and locationsWith teenage drama offset by humour, the Archie comics were like sitcom before the first...Read more

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