target audiences

target audiences

1. ages

   • The age of the audience is always into consideration because the wrong category will completely disinterest the reader if the comic uses childish and mild themes it won't be interesting to a teen or older demographic and a very violent and dark comic won't be appropriate for younger children as it is inappropriate.
     • You would have a brighter more friendly comic for younger readers so that it is appropriate and not something people would shy away from. if you have gruesome content for a 7-year old that would have a very bad reaction compared to a 15-year-old because they are used to different levels of content and if something that is too gruesome or scary is could emotionally scar the reader and you would be at fault for targeting it at them.
     • Older comic books have to have a certain amount of maturity otherwise the reader would be disinterested due to the lack of plot or just pure ridiculousness. each reader will like something different but an older person would have scarier or more gruesome comics because it won't scar them as they would a young child and it would be appropriate for the large population to see that.

2. genders

   • The gender the comic is aiming at will affect the content of the book because the comic book wants to make sure people buy the book so it usually ends up sometimes having quite stereotypical books for each gender. and sometimes they will try to do a mix of new and stereotypical together. for a unisex audience, the book has to tailor to everyone, so it can't be what one gender predominantly likes and the other one dislikes completely and vice versa.
     • This is targeted at boys as indicated by the title 'boy' is an action-based comic with superheroes which you can see from the art style and cover characters. this is using the masculine stereotypes to interest the larger population of teen boys and isolate a few rather than going unconventional and isolation the majority of the market and only tailored to a few.
     • This is targeted at teen girls and the troubles at school (secondary) this is looking at the popular people, the mean girls, and are presenting a person for young girls to aspire to and be like. this is using a variety of different characters so the reader can connect to at least one of them and it is making the comic more realistic and relatable for the girl who would read this.

3. genres

   • The different genres are what dictate the direction of the story because that's the theme to stick to. people like different genres for different reasons, super heroes for escapism and horror for some fright. The wrong genre will completely change the story's style and if you try to work on a genre that is falling you won't get the sales and make a loss rather than a profit.
     • A comedy can be targeted at most ages depending on the humor but if you what a comedy you have to try adding some funny occurrences otherwise, it stops being a comedy. If you have an audience you have to pick humor that relates to them, if you are aiming for teenagers you wouldn't have jokes for adults or young children because they won't find that humorous.
     • A superhero comic is mostly targeted at teens to young adults, so it would need a lot of action to keep the reader interested for long periods if it is just one bit of action the reader will be disinterested and stop reading. Superheroes have a lot of action and fantasy brought in because it is fiction however not enough or o much of just that makes it boring and diminishes the plot.
     • Adult comics have more maturity as they have grown up and won't have the same sense of humor however they still want that escapism from day to day mundane life and this is a way of escape so they have to mix in the fantasy with maturity and sensibility so that the reader can appreciate and enjoy the comic at the same time

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