1. Comics

2. Overview Combine text & graphics~ high/low symbols
Purpose: Entertain, Inform & Persuade
Involves imagination
Genres

3. Language of Comics Closure = mind fills in action between panels
Inference = conclusions drawn between images
Conventions of Presentations
Balloons
Motion lines
Textual sound effect

4. Closure

5. Inference

6. Balloons

7. Motion Lines

8. Textual Sound Effect

9. Types of Comics
Editorial
Strips & Panels
Comic Books
Graphic Novels

10. Editorial

11. Panels

12. Strips

13. Editorial
Context
Topical
Shelf-life

21. Strips & Panels
Types:
Slice of life
Serial or episodical

22. Comic Book Bound collection of previously run comics
1930’s Funnies on Parade 1st collection unpublished
1938 Superman: birth of superhero comics

23. Superman: Icon of durability
Comic book 1938
Radio dramas 1940’s
Adventures Of Superman
B & W TV series
Animated TV series
Films: 1951, ‘78, ‘80, ‘83, ’87,
06, 13
Lois & Clark TV series
Smallville

24. Batman: Multi-media Superhero
Comic book May 1939
Film serials: 1940’s
Film: 1966, 1989, 1992, 2005,
2008, Batman
TV: Primetime
animated sound effects
TV: Animated 1969, ‘73, ‘77

25. Comics & Society Dr. Rex Morgan Issue apology & warning
Don’t use aspirin for infant cold
Don’t follow prescriptions--only a cartoon
“…readers should never use the medical opinions …as a substitute for visits.

26. Comics & Society
Beetle Bailey: Sexual Harassment/Sensitivity training

27. Comics & Society
For Better For Worse: Death

28. Comics & Society
Japan: 40% of all books & magazines published in Japan are comics
$7 Billion a year on comic book sales
Many spin-offs
Pokemon--TV series & seizures

29. Comics & Society
War effort
Build morale
For the GI’s (troops)

30. History of Comics 1900-1930’s Newspaper comics 1930’s Comic Books
WWII & the war effort
1950’s Government investigation/Code
1980’s-1990’s Comic book collectors
1990’s Comic books fading--future uncertain
2009 Digital comics--Apple’s e-Comics

31. Future of Comics Marvel –giant move to digital in 2013-Disney
DC-Warner Brothers

32. Comics to TV Series & Movies
Incredible Hulk
Batman
Superman

33. Graphic Novels

34. Editorial: Shelf life

35. Funnies on Parade 1930’s Funnies on Parade 1st collection unpublished
Significant because it showed there was a market for first run comics

36. Bound Collection

37. Graphic Novels