Strips and a
that usuall
os and comic books.
usually appear in new
very different in di
books. Comic strips are generally short comics
rin newspapers. Comic magazines and books are
different countries. Comic books can be mostly
They are thin and usually published in colour.
ese comics are mostly magazines -- monthly
ope, and usually black-and-white and weekly
omic magazines typically run to hundreds of
d in the USA. They ar
pean and Japanese com
weekly in Europe, and
pan. Japanese comic ma
found in th
European an
and weekly
in Japan. Jan
pages.
e history of comics began 20,000 years ago when
rew symbols, animals and people in a cave in
France. Birds, bears, lions, cattle, bison and
prehistori
what is not
hunters look
Some say that the histo
istoric artists drew sym
t is now modern Franc
ers look at you from the
hunter the mid-20th centune walls of the lions, cattlen a cave in
ted States, France and p
Unitored in newspapers first um, and Japan Popular in th
ks later followed. They
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cartoons (manga) were
United Stat
appeared in
books later
th century, comics had become popular in the
ce and Belgium, and Japan. American comics
pers first as comic strips and superhero comic
d. They were mostly black-and-white. Superman
Golden Age of Comic Books. Japanese comics
nga) were born as early as the 12th century. The
in and Japanese comics traditions have gone
and cartoon
European, America
their own ways.
Text appears in comi
fects. Captions tell us abou
onversations and thoug
in comics in captions, speech balloons and sound
11 us about the place and time, present characters'
I thoughts. Speech balloons actually turn an image
Sound effects can include animal noise
e different in different languages. In England,
sound of the clock may be 'tick-tock', 'katchin-
an and 'tik-tik' in India. Some other English-
ples include 'hiccup', 'zoom', 'bang', 'beep', 'moo'
balloonine, presons and
into comics. Sound
or 'chirp'. They are di
example, the sound of t1
hey are dicats can in
katchin' in Ja
language examples in
and others.
Now webcomics
found on the Intern
films. Today not only
Man, Spider-Man.
Catwoman, Superman. Y
comics are popular all over the world. They can be
he Internet. Film studios often use com
bly comic fans know 300, Jurassic Park, Iron
ler-Man, Hulk, The Men in Black, Avengers, Batman.
perman, X-Men, The X-Files, etc.
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