The document discusses the history of comic books from their origins to modern times. It covers the early development of comic strips in newspapers and the emergence of dedicated comic book magazines in the 1930s-40s. It then discusses the rise of superhero comics in the post-war era and the establishment of major publishers like DC and Marvel. The document also summarizes the alternative comics movement of the 1960s-70s, the graphic novel boom starting in the 1980s, and the expansion of comics into new genres and mediums in recent decades.

1. Media History 5 th session: Comicbooks Steen Christiansen [email_address]

3. Why are comicbooks relevant?

4. The history of comicbooks

5. Comicbooks and popular culture

6. Remediation

7. What are comicbooks? Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence. Little Sammy Sneeze , Winsor McCay

8. What are comicbooks?

9. What are comicbooks?

10. What are comicbooks? Histoire de Monsieur Cryptogame by Rodolphe Töpffer (1830)

11. What are comicbooks? The Yellow Kid/Hogan’s Alley, Richard Felton Outcault

12. What are comicbooks? Rudolph Dirks’ Katzenjammer Kids

14. Drawing / Painting

15. Sculpture

16. Literature

17. Music

18. Theater

19. Dance

22. Popular equals vulgar

23. Humor as opposite harmony and the sublime

25. Blacklisted for corrupting their only audience

27. The imprisonment of the word

28. Artistic mediocrity

29. William Blake

31. Story-telling that appear to remain on the level of sub-literature/paraliterature

32. Connected to caricature, which is thought inferior

33. Propose a return to childhood

35. Comicbooks

36. Cartoons and animated films

37. Alternative comix

38. 80 – comics revised

39. 90 – comics

40. 00s

44. Otherwise, they will use cliffhangers

46. Cartoons and animated films

47. Cartoons and animated films

48. Cartoons and animated films

49. Cartoons and animated films

50. Cartoons and animated films

51. The American Comics Industry

53. Generally considered kids’ entertainment

56. Horror

57. Detective

58. War stories

60. Marvel

61. EC (Entertaining Comics)

62. Dark Horse

64. Comics panic

65. Comics panic

68. Readers follow every issue

69. Stories change, as a result

71. Alternative comix

72. Hippie comics

75. The British Revision of the American Superhero

77. The medium is broadened

78. New subject matters introduced

80. They treat serious topics such as Holocaust

81. Graphic novels are introduced

83. “Who watches the watchmen?”

87. All manner of comicbooks emerge

88. DC and Marvel both make ‘art-house’ imprints

92. Comicbooks and Popular Culture

93. Comicbooks and Popular Culture

94. Comicbooks and Popular Culture

95. Comicbooks and Popular Culture

98. Comics work as inspiration for movies and games