THE FIRST COMICS

The first comics known to the world since 1896 and had more importance in the society were:

1896: The Yellow Kid created by Richard Fenton Outcalt

1930: The cartoons are gaining popularity, with characters like Little Orphan Annie, Popeye, Dick Tracy, indirect predecessor Comic Black and created by Chester Gould, Alex Raymond Flash Gordon and the most successful of all, Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs creation .

1931: Superman first appears in the fanzine Science Fiction: The Future of Civilization Vanguard # 3, creation of writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster. 

1933: Famous Funnies is considered the first comic. It was a re-print of several comic strips in comic book format.

1936: The Phantom drawn by artist Lee Falk comic strip appears in American newspapers

1937: Detective Comics No 1 is launched, then the company takes to create the initial DC Comics, currently one of the most important publishers.

1939: The second gain importance superhero is Batman, created by Bob Kane and presented in May 1939 in Detective Comics # 27

1940: During this decade the most popular character is Captain Marvel (Shazam) whose first appearance was in Whiz Comics (number 1 in front and 2 indoor), published by Fawcett Publications. Subsequently DC obtained the rights and make the magazine Shazam! whose first number corresponds to February 1973.

1941: the first war comic with content is launched, making an appearance the most patriotic superhero of all time, Captain America, Captain America # 1 Jack Kirby creation and Joe Simon. Another important inclusion is the Wonder Woman of William Moulton Marston

The history of the comic

the history of the comic is more directly related to the print and caricature.

Towards the end of the 19th century in Europe as in the United States, newspapers resorted to various incentives in order to attract the largest number of readers and, therefore, control the market. The modernization of printing of United States systems will allow that from 1893 in Sunday supplements appeared a page in color. On this page of the "New York World" appeared in 1895 a vignette of the cartoonist Richard F. Outcault that will lay the groundwork for the current cartoon.

The character that creates is The Yellow Kid, a Chinese dress with a long yellow nightdress, the neighborhoods of New York.

In The Yellow Kid were, for the first time, the three conditions which, according to R. Gubern - enable you to identify the comic as understood it today dia:br

1-sequence of consecutive images to articulate a narrative.

2-the permanence of, at least a stable character throughout a series

3.-integration of the text in the image.

What are comics?

The Comic is a medium in its own right. Usually it is used a few boxes called "vignettes", which combines both words and images to create a narrative about something. From Vignette to Vignette, usually it is assumed that it takes an amount of time. The story Chronicles from the first left upper bullet until the last Panel lower right, zig-zag-shaped.

INTRODUCTION

the following paper aims to 

make known the history of 

the comic or better called 

cartoon, showing its 

development up to the 

present time. In the we can 

see moments of greater importance and the industries that 

marked a key point for the development of this. 

work show facts and dates that took place these advances 

also can give the reader an idea of what are the comics I've 

interest in different modalities which include comics.