Книга: Comics Formats: Comic Book, Comic Strip, Manga, Graphic Novel, Original English-Language Manga, Digital Comics, Topper, Trade Paperback

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Comic Book, Comic Strip, Manga, Graphic Novel, Original English-Language Manga, Digital Comics, Topper, Trade Paperback, Sunday Comics, Minicomic, Comic Book Archive File, Mobile Comic, Motion Comic, Digest Size. Excerpt: A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a funny book , comic paper or comic magazine ) is a magazine made up of narrative artwork, often accompanied by dialog (usually in word balloons , emblematic of the comic book artform) and often including brief descriptive prose. The first comic book appeared in the United States of America in 1934, reprinting the earlier newspaper comic strips , which established many of the story-telling devices used in comics. The term 'comic book' arose because the first comic books reprinted humor comic strips, but despite their name, comic books do not necessarily operate in humorous mode most modern comic books tell stories in a variety of genres. The Japanese and European comic book markets demonstrate this clearly. In the United States the super-hero genre dominates the market, even though other genres also exist.American comics Main article: American comic book Rulah, Jungle Goddess #24 (March 1949), an example of a non-superhero jungle-girl character. Cover artist(s) unknown.Since the introduction of the comic-book format in 1934 with the publication of Famous Funnies , the United States has produced the most titles, with only the British comic and Japanese manga as close competitors in terms of quantity of titles. The comic-book industry in the U.S. markets the majority of its output to young adult readers, though it also produces titles for young children as well as catering to adult audiences.Cultural historians divide the career of the comic book in the U.S. into several ages or historical eras ...