Word: preteen
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...their less evolved forebears, comic books, and if that's not bad enough, they have been saddled with that awkward name. (Maybe it would help if we called them tragic books?) They get sold in comic-book stores or shelved in that corner of Barnes & Noble that buzzes with preteen X-Men fans, a place where self-respecting adult readers fear to tread. No wonder Pekar wrote American Splendor for 27 years before mainstream America finally took notice. The graphic-novel business is reportedly worth about $100 million a year, but it still has no honor in the country that...
...career.) Murakami purposely engineers a neo-Pop Art universality to his work, making his art both effortlessly accessible and intellectually provocative?an ingenious feat. His sometimes sincere, usually ironic, often disturbing plays on the empty smiles and bright colors of cartoon cute are designed to appeal to the preteen in Tokyo who just wants a cell-phone strap with an adorable character on it, while also attracting the attention of the doctoral student in Frankfurt forever hunting for subversive subtexts...
Considering that none other than teen queen Britney Spears was one of Boomkat’s original supporters, it’s not surprising that some of her style has rubbed off on Boomkat. In the preteen chat-room vein of “I’m A Slave 4 U,” the brother-and-sister duo offer such classics as “B4 It’s 2 Late” and “What U Do 2 Me” on their debut album, Boomkatalog...
Boomkatalog One panders to Southern Californian middle school audiences. Taryn and Kellin cover all the requisite preteen bases—angst, love and screwy relationships. “Do you think I’m pretty or don’t you / Do you wanna get with me or not?” Taryn croons in her raspy drawl on “Wastin’ My Time.” “Now Understand This” boasts a refrain that sounds like a chorus of kindergarteners on uppers, happily la-la-la-ing their way to hyperactive...
...Family friendly is the buzz phrase now," says Sandy Franco, co-owner of the 15,000-member Franco's Athletic Club in Mandeville, La., a suburb of New Orleans. "A lot more owners are realizing it's good business. Parents love it. And if you're a teen or preteen, your friends are there or you can be on your own. It's hip. And there are a million things...