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1. American
Comic
Books
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2. ~HISTORY OF COMIC BOOKS
~WHAT’S AN AMERICAN COMIC
BOOK?
~FORMAT
~HOW TO MAKE COMIC BOOK?
~FAMOUS WRITERS OF COMICS
~COMICS

3. History of comics
× The development of the modern American comic book happened in stages. Publishers had
collected comic strips in hardcover book form as early as 1842, with The Adventures of
Obadiah Oldbuck, a collection of English-language newspaper inserts originally published in
Europe as the 1833 book Histoire de M. Vieux Bois by Rodolphe Töpffer. The G. W.
Dillingham Company published the first known proto-comic-book magazine in the U.S.,
The Yellow Kid in McFadden's Flats, in 1897. A hardcover book, it reprinted material —
primarily the October 18, 1896 to January 10, 1897 sequence titled "McFadden's Row
of Flats" — from cartoonist Richard F. Outcault's newspaper comic strip Hogan's Alley,
starring the Yellow Kid. The 196-page, square-bound, black-and-white publication, which
also includes introductory text by E. W. Townsend, measured 5×7 inches and sold for
50 cents. The neologism "comic book" appears on the back cover. Despite the publication
of a series of related Hearst comics soon afterward,the first monthly proto-comic book,
Embee Distributing Company's Comic Monthly, did not appear until 1922. Produced in
an 8½-by-9-inch format, it reprinted black-and-white newspaper comic strips and lasted
a year.

4. WHAT’S AN
AMERICAN COMIC
BOOK?
~An American comic book is a thin periodical,
typically 32-pages, containing comics
content. While the form originated in 1933,
American comic books first gained popularity
after the 1938 publication of Action
Comics, which included the debut of the
superhero Superman. This was followed by a
superhero boom that lasted until the end of
World War II. After the war, while
superheroes were marginalized, the comic
book industry rapidly expanded, and genres
such as horror, crime, and romance became
popular. The 1950s saw a gradual decline,
due to a shift away from print media in
the wake of television and the impact of
the Comics Code Authority. The late 1950s
and the 1960s saw a superhero revival, and
superheroes remain the dominant character
archetype in the 21st century.
~Since the later 20th century, comic books have
gained note as collectible items. Comic shops
cater to fans, and particularly valuable
issues have fetched in excess of a million
dollars. Systems of grading comic books have
emerged with plastic sleeves ("bags") and
cardboard backing ("boards") available to
maintain the condition of comic books.

5. Format of Comic
books
The typical size and page count of
comics has varied over the decades,
generally trending toward smaller
formats and fewer pages. In recent
decades, standard comics have been
about 6.625 inches (16.83 cm) ×
10.25 inches (26.0 cm), and usually
32 pages long.

6. × While comics can be the work of a single creator, the labour of making them is frequently divided
between a number of specialists. There may be a separate writer and artist, or there may be separate
artists for the characters and backgrounds.
× Particularly in superhero comic books, the art may be divided between:
× a penciller, who lays out the artwork in pencil.
× an inker, who finishes the artwork in ink.
× a colorist.
× a letterer, who adds the captions and speech balloons.
× The process begins with the creator coming up with an idea or concept, then working it into a plot
and story, and finalizing the preliminary writing with a script. After the art production, letters are
placed on the page and an editor may have the final say before the comic is sent to the printer.
× The creative team, the writers and artists, may work with a comic book publisher for help with
marketing, advertising, and other logistics. A distributor like Diamond Comic Distributors, the largest in
the U.S., helps to distribute the finished product to retailers.
× Another part of the process involved in successful comics is the interaction between the readers/fans
and the creator(s). Fan art and letters to the editor were commonly printed in the back of the book
until the early 21st century, when various Internet forms started to replace them

7. Famous writers
of comic books
~Captain America-Joe Simon
× Joseph Henry "Joe" Simon (born Hymie Simon; October
11, 1913 – December 14, 2011) was an American comic
book writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Simon
created or co-created many important characters in the
1930s–1940s Golden Age of Comic Books and served as
the first editor of Timely Comics, the company that
would evolve into Marvel Comics.
× With his partner, artist Jack Kirby, he co-created
Captain America, one of comics' most enduring
superheroes, and the team worked extensively on such
features at DC Comics as the 1940s Sandman and
Sandy the Golden Boy, and co-created the Newsboy
Legion, the Boy Commandos, and Manhunter.
~ Captain America -Jack Kirby ( born Jacob Kurtzberg
/ˈAugust 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was an American
comic book artist, writer, and editor, widely regarded as
one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most
prolific and influential creators.
Kirby grew up in New York City, and learned to draw
cartoon figures by tracing characters from comic strips and
editorial cartoons. He entered the nascent comics industry
in the 1930s, drawing various comics features under
different pen names, including Jack Curtiss, before
ultimately settling on Jack Kirby. In 1940, he and writer-
editor Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero
character Captain America for Timely Comics, predecessor of
Marvel Comics. During the 1940s, Kirby, regularly teamed
with Simon, creating numerous characters for that company
and for National Comics Publications, later to become DC
Comics.

8. ~The Funnies and Funnies on Parade
× ~In 1929, Dell Publishing published The Funnies, described by the Library of Congress as "a short-
lived newspaper tabloid insert" and not to be confused with Dell's 1936 comic-book series of the
same name. Historian Ron Goulart describes the 16-page, four-color periodical as "more a Sunday
comic section without the rest of the newspaper than a true comic book. But it did offer all
original material and was sold on newsstands". The Funnies ran for 36 issues, published Saturdays
through October 16, 1930.
× In 1933, salesperson Maxwell Gaines, sales manager Harry I. Wildenberg, and owner George Janosik
of the Waterbury, Connecticut company Eastern Color Printing – which printed, among other
things, Sunday-paper comic-strip sections – produced Funnies on Parade as a way to keep their
presses running. Like The Funnies, but only eight pages,this appeared as a newsprint magazine.
Rather than using original material, however, it reprinted in color several comic strips licensed from
the McNaught Syndicate and the McClure Syndicae. These included such popular strips as cartoonist
Al Smith’s Mutt and Jeff, Ham Fisher's Joe Palooka, and Percy Crosby's Skippy. Eastern Color
neither sold this periodical nor made it available on newsstands, but rather sent it out free as a
promotional item to consumers who mailed in coupons clipped from Procter & Gamble soap and
toiletries products. The company printed 10,000 copies. The promotion proved a success, and
Eastern Color that year produced similar periodicals for Canada Dry soft drinks, Kinney Shoes,
Wheatena cereal and others, with print runs of from 100,000 to 250,000.