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Fumetti (Italian)
Bande Dessine (French)
Manga (Japanese)
History:
or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Wikipedia
• Richard Felton Outcault’s The Yellow Kid – first “real” comic strip
• Primarily humoristic – called the Funnies, the Famous Funnies, the
Comics, etc.
1930-1950: It’s a bird! It’s a plane!
• Loss of readers after WWII due to lack of purpose and competition with
television and radio.
• Attracted attention of Senate investigations, particularly popular
“horror” themed comics.
• Dr. Fredric Wertham’s The Seduction of the Innocent (1954).
• Comics Code Authority – to self-police the industry.
• Comic themes moved from consensus to critical.
• Marvel introduces heroes with weaknesses such as the Hulk (i.e., anger
management) and Spiderman (i.e., teenage angst).
1971-1980: We’re artists and
we need money!
• http://www.randomhistory.com/1-50/033comic.html
• http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/5537/hist.htm
• http://www.wikipedia.com
• http://www.mangafox.com/
Sample Webcomics
• http://www.sinfest.net/
• http://www.snafu-comics.com/
• http://www.nuklearpower.com/
• http://penny-arcade.com/
• http://www.megatokyo.com/
• http://vgcats.com/
• http://keychain.patternspider.net/