Scan from the book's introduction.
“Since comics are easily read, their reputation for usefulness has been associated with people of low literacy and limited intellectual accomplishment.”
A quotation that I think will be useful for my essay. Eisner continues to state that this has been mirrored in the work that has been produced; comics are easy to read, therefore let's make comics for children because they're not so good at reading. This shouldn't dictate the direction of the whole medium, it limits the capabilities of the raw potential inherent in the harmony of text and imagery.
One of my previous posts was on terminology, my definitions of these terms are roughly similar to Eisner's as he puts them at the end of this book's introduction.
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