Something magical happens when you combine sequential pictures with a narrative, and that alchemy has produced legions of comic strip and comedian textbook fans.Comics are an unparalleled medium for artistic expression, where a talented artist can create a complete artistic vision single-handedly. They are often used as a commercial medium, too, because the impact of a color visual paired with words is so strong. Comics can also be used as a teaching tool, because the sequential narrative is a good technique for reinforcing concepts. Reading and collecting comics can be habit-forming.
For caducity, the most typical strips featured the serial adventures of such characters as Steve Canyon and Lil' Abner, before giving plan to the joke-a-day gag strips. A rare of these if a sophisticated mirror to state, such as Charles Schulz's "Peanuts." Although there get been standout strips adoration "Doonesbury" and "Calvin and Hobbes" in latest decades, the newspaper strips hold declined in the habitual outline as newspapers themselves hog taken a back seat to basic television, and nowadays contemporary media including the Internet.
Effects
Comedian books appeared in the 1930s, originally reprinting the most habitual newspaper strips of the time, on the contrary soon featured authentic info. Millions of comedian books sold during Terrene Contention II as superheros such as Superman and Commander America battled Nazis and the Japanese. In the 1950s, comics were branded as a consideration of juvenile delinquency and they declined rapidly. Marvel Comics led a resurgence of comedian books in the 1960s as Stan Refuge and Jack Kirby created heroes such as Spiderman, reflecting happening culture. Metro comics appeared in the 1960s with the explosion of salad days culture, with explicit references to womanliness, drugs and rock and roll. After another decline in the '70s, comedian books bounced back as a series of indy/alternative artists applied their Genius to the medium, notably Craft Spiegelman with his groundbreaking graphic romance "Maus" in 1986. Nowadays, the graphic anecdote has established itself as a credible Craft form while superhero comics have retreated to genre status, feeding material to summer blockbuster movies.
Features
The various forms of comics--comic strips, editorial cartoons, comic books, manga novels, underground comics, comic anthologies and graphic novels--share certain features. Comics are a story art form, where the story is drawn by an artist or artists and the words are drawn into the art inside a word balloon. A comic strip in a newspaper typically runs three or four panels, which are little squares including the words and pictures. A comic book features page after page of panels, consisting of a story constructed of words and pictures. The term graphic novel refers to a long comic story packaged as a trade book for sale in bookstores and comics specialty shops.
Misconceptions
Historically, the majority of comic books have been produced for children--thus the persistent misconception that comics are for children only. With the advent of the more sophisticated Marvel Comics and especially the underground comics of the 1960s, older readers were attracted to comic books. Today's graphic novels may be aimed at a number of audiences, with many literary graphic novels pointed at an exclusively adult readership. Notable cartoonists that write for an adult audience include R. Crumb, Julie Doucet, Mary Fleener, J.R. Williams, Phoebe Gloeckner, Steve Lafler, Keith Knight and the trio of Jaime, Mario and Gilbert Hernandez, the brothers famous for "Love and Rockets."
Benefits
Comics are as divergent as any other literary mediums, with visual gags, novel-length stories and all the more a Pulitzer Prize-winning historical portion (Craft Spiegelman's "Maus") within the medium.
