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Sequential Art

comics!

Gutters

space between panels

Closure

using imagination to fill in the blanks in between panels

aspect-to-aspect transitions

same scene, different views.

emanata

use of symbols in place of emotion / feels

Rodolphe Topffer

The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck (1837)

Newspaper Syndicate

artists own characters, newspaper distributes

Golden Age of super-heroes

> Late 30s - Early 50s

EC Comics

> Entertainment Comics


> specialized in lots of genres, horror, science fiction to name just a couple.


> put out of business by the comics code


> eventually becomes MAD magazine

Frederic Wertham

> Author of "Seduction of the Innocent" (1954)

Comics Code

> 1954


> started by the comics biz to avoid having the gov't get involved in censorship


> basically made all comics boring af

Silver Age of super heroes

Mid 50s - 70s

Marvel Comics

> Founded 1939



Underground Comix

> 1968 - 75


> self published comics that went against the code ( sex, drug use, violence, etc)


> social commentary, satirical in nature

Rodolphe Topffer


Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck


1837

Lynd Ward


Gods' Man


1929




>Woodcut

Winsor McCay


Little Nemo in Slumberland


1910s-1920s

George Herriman


Krazy Kat


1910s-1940s

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster


Action Comics #1


1938




> first superman appearance


> violent

Bill Finger and Bob Cane


Detective Comics #27


1939




> first batman appearance


> guns n shirt


super colorful

Will Eisner


The Spirit


1940s

Harvey Kurtzman


Air Burst


1952

Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood


Superduperman


1953

Al Feldstein and Bernard Krigstein


Master Race


1955

Carmine Infantino


Showcase #4


1956

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby


Fantastic Four


1960s

Stan Lee and Steve Ditko


Amazing Fantasy #15


1961




> first spiderman

Robert Crumb


I Remember the Sixties


1981




> gross art


> sex

Melinda Gebbie


My Three Swans


1979




> super gross


> ugly sisters

Dori Seda


The Do-Nothing Decade


1987