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21 Century Literature Lecture Topic: Comic Book Comic Book - Refers To Any Format That Uses A Combination of Frames, Words, and

Comic books use a combination of words and static images in panels to tell stories. They have been popular since the early 20th century. Some key developments include the first comic book reprinting newspaper strips in 1911, the first independently published comic book in 1934, and the introduction of popular characters like Superman in 1938 and Fantastic Four in 1961. A comic book contains credits, a title, cover image, panels containing images and words like captions, thought bubbles, and dialogue balloons to convey meaning and move the story along.

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21 Century Literature Lecture Topic: Comic Book Comic Book - Refers To Any Format That Uses A Combination of Frames, Words, and

Comic books use a combination of words and static images in panels to tell stories. They have been popular since the early 20th century. Some key developments include the first comic book reprinting newspaper strips in 1911, the first independently published comic book in 1934, and the introduction of popular characters like Superman in 1938 and Fantastic Four in 1961. A comic book contains credits, a title, cover image, panels containing images and words like captions, thought bubbles, and dialogue balloons to convey meaning and move the story along.

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21st Century Literature

Lecture Topic: Comic Book

 Comic book – refers to any format that uses a combination of frames, words, and
pictures to convey meaning and tell a story.
o Comic book is a visual text, its language of storytelling is unique.
o Apart from words, it uses static images, sectioned into panels, to convey
meanings.
o In some cases, there are no words at all; the images alone communicate
meaning (McCloud, 1993).
o Collections of comic strips of one title, generally printed in color on newsprint
in magazine form
 History
o have been popular since the early 20th century
o One of the first comic books was a collection of the Mutt and
Jeff comic strips reprinted from the Chicago American in 1911.
o The first comic book published independently of any newspaper, containing
material specially prepared for it, was The Funnies , a four-color book with
pages the size of a tabloid newspaper, which ran for 13 issues in 1929.
o The first comic book to sell on newsstands was Famous Funnies , which first
appeared in 1934.
o In 1938, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster introduced Superman, one of the most
popular characters in the history of comic books.
o Artist Jack Kirby and writer Stan Lee created four superheroes called the
Fantastic Four for Marvel Comics in 1961.
o In 1962, Marvel introduced the Amazing Spider-Man in a story by Lee and
artist Steve Ditko.
o

 PARTS of a Comic Book


o Publisher – the company responsible for publishing the book
o Main title – the title of the comic denoting the series it belongs to.
o Credits – lists the contributions to the book. Usually the writer first, followed
by the artist and the inker.
o Subtitle – title of the individual issue
o Cover image – meant to the reader’s attention, usually depicts a scene from
the book.
o Caption – refers to a speech box that contains narration; that is, speech not
thought or spoken by one of the characters.
o Panel – a single image is contained within a panel. Panels are not always
used, and when used they are not as restrictive as they once were.
o Gutter – the space between panels. Traditional comics confine action to the
panels. Modern comics are not restricted.
o Thought bubble- contain thoughts of the indicated character. These words
represent dialogue internal to that character.
o Dialogue balloons – contain words spoken by indicated character.

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