When I was young, I used to read tons of books like Diary of A Wimpy Kid, Big Nate, The Magic Tree House, Henry and Mudge, Julie B Jones, Origami Yoda, and various other cartoon books. However as I got older, I stopped reading fiction due to every western fiction book aimed at anyone over the age of 12 being an unreadable wall of microscopic text. The Western Publishing industry treats anyone who relies on cartoons as being children. Adding cartoons to your book could add a whole new level of immersion to the book. Imagine a book about the Vietnam war, but instead of being unreadable walls of tiny text, you have a few accompanying cartoons that make the book even more emotional. Nonfiction has this figured out already for years. Instead of walls of tiny texts, they have pictures accompanying the text. Cartoons can be art too. [Grave of the Fireflies](https://myanimelist.net/anime/578/Hotaru_no_Haka) is an animated movie, yet it’s lauded as one of the best and moving anti war movies of all time. [Bloom County](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_County) is a newspaper cartoon, yet it won a **PULITZER PRIZE**. What makes the west’s treatment of cartoon books even more ridiculous is that there’s a [whole industry for adult cartoon books](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_novel) in Asia. So what is your problem western publishers. I know some of you are already typing a wall of text comments that says “um AKSCHUALLY read comic books 🤓” or “cartoons are exclusively for children, books are meant to be imagined.” So one last time western publishers, why do you think cartoons are for kids?
by notagoodcartoonist