Silicon

May 18th, 2004

Filed under: Comics

Everyone is familiar with the Golden Age and the Silver Age of comics. There are those who also speak of a pre-Golden Age “Platinum Age” and a post-Silver Age “Bronze Age“. I would like to propose an age of my own. I refer to the age of gimmick covers, multiple covers, and the rise of Image Comics. I speak of the boom and bust speculator days of the early to mid-90’s.

I suggest we call this age the Silicon Age.

Why?

  • Silicon keeps with the mineral/element theme previously started (alright, I know bronze is an alloy, but close enough!)
  • This is when computers really started playing a noticable role in comics (Batman: Digital Justice was published in 1990)
  • This was the beginning of the good girl/bad girl art and pin-up pose era…and those busts just are not natural…hence the Silicon Age.

2 Responses to “ Silicon ”

  1. Tom Smith
    May 20th, 2004 at 3:44 am

    Alan Moore refers to the silicon age of comics in an introduction to a book I read recently.
    Unfortunately can’t remember which book though…

  2. Scott
    May 20th, 2004 at 9:10 am

    And here I thought I was being original. Oh well, I can handle being out-thought by Alan Moore.

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