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This 8 page paper traces the development of the comic book from comic strips to comic books to the graphic novel. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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and communication forms have changed as well. This paper traces the history of comic strips, comic books, and their evolution into the graphic novel. Discussion Comics, or at least representational
art, can be traced to the ancients, where, in the Aeneid, Virgil describes a tapestry that depicted some of the things that happened during the Trojan War (History, 2007). The
Bayeux tapestry is a famous depiction of battle in the Middle Ages; and narrative strips, "usually in the form of woodcuts, became a popular medium for the expression of religious
and political ideas during the Reformation" (History, 2007). The cartoon was the "immediate ancestor of the newspaper comic strip"; they were particularly popular in the late 19th century (History, 2007).
"In the 18th and early 19th cent., the cartoons of William Hogarth and Thomas Rowlandson regularly included balloons; continuity was utilized by Rowlandson in his Tours of Dr. Syntax (1812-21)"
(History, 2007). Other artists included Rudolph T?pffer in France and "Christophe" (Georges Colomb); the first strip "with a regular cast of characters was Wilhelm Buschs Max und Moritz (1865)" (History,
2007). In Britain, the first strip with a recurring character was "Ally Sloper, by Charles Ross and Marie Duval (1867-76); Tom Brownes Weary Willie and Tired Tim reached the British
public in the 1890s. (History, 2007). In the United States, early comic strips "were published exclusively as weekly features in the Sunday supplement of American newspapers" (American comic strips, 2007).
The definition of "comic strip" in its strictest usage refers to a "syndicated newspaper feature that appears daily in a single row of three or four panels, together with other
comic strips that form a page, and is printed in black and white, except on Sunday, when it appears in two to four consecutive rows and is printed in color
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