"The world is already depressed enough. At the moment, I don't know who would digest more stories about a crumbling civilization, so I'm not working on stories like that right now. I want to go back to comics, and write screenplays with the goal of making me laugh."
Charlie Brooker
I passed on my love for comics and Politika's entertainer to my students. This is a reading of the children's press.
The prehistory of comics goes back to the ancient past of fine arts. Rows of connected painted scenes in Egyptian tombs, a long ribbon on Trajan's Column from ancient Rome are some examples of narrative painting.
The beginnings of comics are linked to the appearance of high-circulation newspapers. At first, the comic was perceived exclusively as entertaining content close to caricature and comic interpretation. It was not until the thirties of the 20th century that it received the deserved confirmation, as a new type of artistic expression.
"Yellow Deran" by Richard Autokolt is the first comic in which bubbles with text appeared. The popularity of this comic was so great that the term yellow press was coined after its main character, which refers to journalism that deals with social affairs.
The oldest comics are Bim and Bum, Little Nemo, The Tarana Family and Cat Felix. While during the 30s of the 20th century, comic magazines were created for the younger population.
The superheroes who marked the fourth decade of the 20th century are Buck Rogers (the first science fiction comic), then Tarzan, Dick Tracy, Flash Gordon, Superman, Phantom ...
A little later, Snoopy was born. This famous comic is characterized by reduced figures and space, static characters and a calm rhythm of action.
The most popular comics of this period are: Hogar the Terrible (USA), Corto Maltese, Alan Ford (Italy) and Asterix (France).
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