What is the history of comic books?
Question: i need as much information on comics as possible for my media project. i neeed to know how children comics has changed and developed over the years and the codes and convention of comic books
Answers: you know Bill watterson the creator of CAlvin and Hobbs wrote a very interesting article on all of this on his anniversery edtion of his comic...look it up
its very informing and detailed \not like me
You might want to look into biographies of Stan Lee, and the guys who created the Superman comic books etc. Any of these biographies will help since they began the transition from comic strips to books.
I'm pretty sure if you google comic book history that you'll find relevant sources as well, this is a pretty popular topic lately.
It gets better every day
check out wikipedia. there's more info there than you can dream of!
I'll try to answer this in the best way I can, so please bear with me.
The first thing you need to do is define what you're looking for. That may sound silly, but as a true student and aspiring creator, there is more to comics than just the obvious. Are you strictly concerned with the history of Comic Books or a more defined area like Children's Comics? Depending on the focus, the answer will be vastly different.
Or, did you want to go so far as to talk about how Comics Books are really just an offshot of Sequential Art in general? That would include areas like comic strips, political cartoons, ancient woodcarvings, comic books, and potentially things like cave drawings, heiroglyphics, or symbology. Like I said, there is more to this than is obvious.
That being said, if you want to trace the history of the modern comic book, here are some important things to keep in mind.
Comic Books started in the 1930's as collections of printed comic strips that were reprinted in digest format. More Fun Comics is probably the most well known. As the popularity of these new formats of digests grew, they began to do more than just publish previously printed material. Eventually new stories and art were made and sold specifically to young readers, mostly ages 12 and under.
The earliest comics were very heavily influenced by the comic strips that appeared in newspapers and many of the early characters crossed over into the comic book. Eventually more companies became involved and created new characters based on the popular themes and stories of the day like action, adventure, mystery, and detective stories. Those books gave way to characters like Superman, Batman, Captain America, The Human Torch, and so on.
At the end of the 1930's, the Superhero emerged as about the most popular style of comic, although other genres retained popularity. Aimed at the younger crowd, they became a very popular media in the 1940's and remained that way until the McCarthyism of the early 1950's and the Red Scare which almost destroyed the Comics Industry. It was during this time that the Comics Code was invented.
The Comics Code appeared on comics to ensure the public that a book with it's stamp on it contained only appropriate material that was suitable for children. Specifically they were afraid of content that included horror, magic, the supernatural, or sympathetic overtures to communism.
As a result, Comic Books had a very negative reputation for much of the later 1950's and early 1960's. Most of the superhero stories were bland and very unoffensive. It wasn't until the social conflicts of the 60's did comics start to focus more on real issues, especially over at Marvel.
By the 1970's companies started to re-explore subects like magic, horror, and supernatural monsters. The average age of the comic readers began to increase during this decade too. Many people who read comics as kids continued to read them into their late teens and even their 20's.
By the late 1990's the comics code was dropped by the two largest publishers, Marvel and then later DC. Also, the place where most people bought comics from had changed. In the 1970's and then especially in the 1980's, coimcs slowly moved away from the traditional distribution of newsstands and drug store racks to what is known as the Direct Market, or the modern Comic Book Store.
That's really just the tip of the iceberg and ver very general history of the modern comicbook. If you want more information, I would recommend checking out your local comic shop or the book Understanding Comics by Scott McClode (or Mc Cloud..I can never remember) which should help you get started.
Good Luck!
Idont have the history, but i just love them.
In 1450 in the old country (Holland) the man that went by the name of James Franklen Oberchunks drew up what could be the first comic book called CRAZEI DELI about a man who owned a deli in amsterdam that sliced the fingers off anyone who tried cheating his scales with matches or another form.
Answers: you know Bill watterson the creator of CAlvin and Hobbs wrote a very interesting article on all of this on his anniversery edtion of his comic...look it up
its very informing and detailed \not like me
You might want to look into biographies of Stan Lee, and the guys who created the Superman comic books etc. Any of these biographies will help since they began the transition from comic strips to books.
I'm pretty sure if you google comic book history that you'll find relevant sources as well, this is a pretty popular topic lately.
It gets better every day
check out wikipedia. there's more info there than you can dream of!
I'll try to answer this in the best way I can, so please bear with me.
The first thing you need to do is define what you're looking for. That may sound silly, but as a true student and aspiring creator, there is more to comics than just the obvious. Are you strictly concerned with the history of Comic Books or a more defined area like Children's Comics? Depending on the focus, the answer will be vastly different.
Or, did you want to go so far as to talk about how Comics Books are really just an offshot of Sequential Art in general? That would include areas like comic strips, political cartoons, ancient woodcarvings, comic books, and potentially things like cave drawings, heiroglyphics, or symbology. Like I said, there is more to this than is obvious.
That being said, if you want to trace the history of the modern comic book, here are some important things to keep in mind.
Comic Books started in the 1930's as collections of printed comic strips that were reprinted in digest format. More Fun Comics is probably the most well known. As the popularity of these new formats of digests grew, they began to do more than just publish previously printed material. Eventually new stories and art were made and sold specifically to young readers, mostly ages 12 and under.
The earliest comics were very heavily influenced by the comic strips that appeared in newspapers and many of the early characters crossed over into the comic book. Eventually more companies became involved and created new characters based on the popular themes and stories of the day like action, adventure, mystery, and detective stories. Those books gave way to characters like Superman, Batman, Captain America, The Human Torch, and so on.
At the end of the 1930's, the Superhero emerged as about the most popular style of comic, although other genres retained popularity. Aimed at the younger crowd, they became a very popular media in the 1940's and remained that way until the McCarthyism of the early 1950's and the Red Scare which almost destroyed the Comics Industry. It was during this time that the Comics Code was invented.
The Comics Code appeared on comics to ensure the public that a book with it's stamp on it contained only appropriate material that was suitable for children. Specifically they were afraid of content that included horror, magic, the supernatural, or sympathetic overtures to communism.
As a result, Comic Books had a very negative reputation for much of the later 1950's and early 1960's. Most of the superhero stories were bland and very unoffensive. It wasn't until the social conflicts of the 60's did comics start to focus more on real issues, especially over at Marvel.
By the 1970's companies started to re-explore subects like magic, horror, and supernatural monsters. The average age of the comic readers began to increase during this decade too. Many people who read comics as kids continued to read them into their late teens and even their 20's.
By the late 1990's the comics code was dropped by the two largest publishers, Marvel and then later DC. Also, the place where most people bought comics from had changed. In the 1970's and then especially in the 1980's, coimcs slowly moved away from the traditional distribution of newsstands and drug store racks to what is known as the Direct Market, or the modern Comic Book Store.
That's really just the tip of the iceberg and ver very general history of the modern comicbook. If you want more information, I would recommend checking out your local comic shop or the book Understanding Comics by Scott McClode (or Mc Cloud..I can never remember) which should help you get started.
Good Luck!
Idont have the history, but i just love them.
In 1450 in the old country (Holland) the man that went by the name of James Franklen Oberchunks drew up what could be the first comic book called CRAZEI DELI about a man who owned a deli in amsterdam that sliced the fingers off anyone who tried cheating his scales with matches or another form.
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