How Comics Started--Let's Go Back A Little Further
Superman, Batman & Co: New Comic Book Information - How Did the Comic Book Get Its Start: "How Did the Comic Book Get Its Start
The origins of the comic book are somewhat controversial and perhaps the jury is still out So lets go back to the cartoonish broadsheets of the Middle Ages which were parchment products created by anonymous woodcutters As mass circulation of these broadsheets became possible they soon developed a market particularly at public executions popular events for centuries ugh which drew thousands of happy spectators Many of these spectators would invest in an artists rendering of a hanging or burning and thus making a very lucky day for the broadsheet seller The broadsheet evolved into higherlevel content as humor was introduced "
If you want to get technical, Egyptian hieroglyphics may be as much a forerunner of the modern comic as these broadsheets were.
Joe
The origins of the comic book are somewhat controversial and perhaps the jury is still out So lets go back to the cartoonish broadsheets of the Middle Ages which were parchment products created by anonymous woodcutters As mass circulation of these broadsheets became possible they soon developed a market particularly at public executions popular events for centuries ugh which drew thousands of happy spectators Many of these spectators would invest in an artists rendering of a hanging or burning and thus making a very lucky day for the broadsheet seller The broadsheet evolved into higherlevel content as humor was introduced "
If you want to get technical, Egyptian hieroglyphics may be as much a forerunner of the modern comic as these broadsheets were.
Joe
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