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[[File:Manga_Hokusai.jpg|thumb|Manga Hokusai.]]'''Comics''' is a medium used to express ideas via images, often combined with text or other visual information.
[[File:Two_young_Polish_boys_read_a_Polish_edition_of_Mickey_Mouse_(Warsaw_1939).jpg|250px|thumb|Two young Polish boys read a Polish edition of a Mickey Mouse Sunday colored supplement while standing among the ruins of a building in Warsaw. September 1939.]]


== Description ==
Comics frequently takes the form of juxtaposed sequences of panels of images. Often textual devices such as [[speech balloons]], captions, [[cartouches]], and onomatopoeia indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information. Size and arrangement of panels contribute to narrative pacing.


Comics frequently takes the form of juxtaposed sequences of panels of images.
Since the late 20th century, bound volumes such as [[Graphic novel (nonfiction)|graphic novels]], comics albums, and ''tankōbon'' have become increasingly common, and online webcomics have proliferated in the 21st century.


Often textual devices such as [[speech balloons]], captions, [[cartouches]], and onomatopoeia indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information.
Scholars have posited a pre-history as far back as the [[:File:Lascaux Megaloceros.jpg|Lascaux cave paintings]].


Size and arrangement of panels contribute to narrative pacing.
== In the News ==


Cartooning and similar forms of illustration are the most common image-making means in comics; ''fumetti'' is a form which uses photographic images.
<gallery>
File:Lascaux Megaloceros.jpg|Lascaux cave paintings [[Art (nonfiction)|tell it like it is]].
File:Diagramaceous soil bingo algorithm harvest.jpg|link=Diagramaceous soil|[[Speech balloon (nonfiction)|Algorithmic speech balloons]] harvested in record number, thanks to freshly enumerated [[Diagramaceous soil]]y.
File:Jesse_Orion_40pitd020.png|''40 Peanuts in the Desert'' by Jesse Orion points the way.
File:Manga_Hokusai.jpg|Hello World, says Manga Hokusai.
File:Approved_by_the_Comics_Code_Authority.gif|link=Comics Code Authority (nonfiction)|[[Comics Code Authority (nonfiction)|Comics Code Authority symbol]] unemployed, will assert censorship authority for food.
</gallery>


Common forms of comics include:
== Fiction cross-reference ==
 
* Comic strips
* Editorial and gag cartoons
* Comic books
 
Since the late 20th century, bound volumes such as graphic novels, comics albums, and ''tankōbon'' have become increasingly common, and online webcomics have proliferated in the 21st century.
 
== History ==


The history of comics has followed different paths in different cultures. Scholars have posited a pre-history as far back as the Lascaux cave paintings.
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
 
By the mid-20th century, comics flourished particularly in the United States, western Europe (especially in France and Belgium), and Japan. The history of European comics is often traced to Rodolphe Töpffer's cartoon strips of the 1830s, and became popular following the success in the 1930s of strips and books such as The Adventures of Tintin.
 
== Comics in America ==
 
American comics emerged as a mass medium in the early 20th century with the advent of newspaper comic strips; magazine-style comic books followed in the 1930s, in which the superhero genre became prominent after [[Superman]] appeared in 1938.
 
== Comics in Japan ==
 
Histories of Japanese comics and cartooning (manga) propose origins as early as the 12th century.
 
Modern comic strips emerged in Japan in the early 20th century, and the output of comics magazines and books rapidly expanded in the post-World War II era with the popularity of cartoonists such as Osamu Tezuka.
 
== Social status ==
 
Comics has had a lowbrow reputation for much of its history, but towards the end of the 20th century began to find greater acceptance with the public and in academia.
 
== Variety of terms and definitions ==
 
The English term comics is used as a singular noun when it refers to the medium and a plural when referring to particular instances, such as individual strips or comic books.
 
Though the term derives from the humorous (or comic) work that predominated in early American newspaper comic strips, it has become standard also for non-humorous works.
 
It is common in English to refer to the comics of different cultures by the terms used in their original languages, such as manga for Japanese comics, or bandes dessinées for French-language comics.
 
There is no consensus amongst theorists and historians on a definition of comics; some emphasize the combination of images and text, some sequentiality or other image relations, and others historical aspects such as mass reproduction or the use of recurring characters.
 
The increasing cross-pollination of concepts from different comics cultures and eras has further made definition difficult.


== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==


* [[Cartouche (nonfiction)]]
* [[Cartouche (nonfiction)]]
* [[Graphic novel (nonfiction)]]
* [[Speech balloon (nonfiction)]]
* [[Speech balloon (nonfiction)]]


== Fiction cross-reference ==
External links, general:


== External links ==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics Comics] @ Wikipedia
* [https://boingboing.net/2018/10/09/transmet-and-beyond.html Warren Ellis on the unique narrative power of comics]


* [http://wiki.karljones.com/index.php?title=Comics Comics] @ wiki.karljones.com
External links, specific:
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics Comics] @ Wikipedia


* [http://www.viruscomix.com/page567.html Anomalies] @ Virus Comics


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Latest revision as of 11:13, 9 October 2018

Two young Polish boys read a Polish edition of a Mickey Mouse Sunday colored supplement while standing among the ruins of a building in Warsaw. September 1939.

Comics frequently takes the form of juxtaposed sequences of panels of images. Often textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, cartouches, and onomatopoeia indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information. Size and arrangement of panels contribute to narrative pacing.

Since the late 20th century, bound volumes such as graphic novels, comics albums, and tankōbon have become increasingly common, and online webcomics have proliferated in the 21st century.

Scholars have posited a pre-history as far back as the Lascaux cave paintings.

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links, general:

External links, specific:

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