Stories Story Telling and Contemperary Cartoom Art
Historical Roots
In 16th-century Germany, cartoons in the form of
broadsheets or broadsides (single cartoons printed on large pieces of paper) began to be posted in public places with the intent of swaying people's beliefs.
Hey Diddle Diddle <> Diddle Diddle Dumpling <> Jack Sprat <> Old King Cole <> Georgie Porgie
Comics Publishers Cautiously Go Online
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iBcy_vdTtxcEwd6Kv-1SSgNvr42wD8SSJ0C04
By RYAN PEARSON – 1 day ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Marvel is putting some of its older comics online
Tuesday, hoping to reintroduce young people to the X-Men and Fantastic
Four by showcasing the original issues in which such characters
appeared.
It's a tentative move onto the Internet: Comics can
only be viewed in a Web browser, not downloaded, and new issues will
only go online at least six months after they first appear in print.
Still,
it represents perhaps the comics industry's most aggressive Web push
yet. Even as their creations -- from Iron Man to Wonder Woman -- become
increasingly visible in pop culture through new movies and video games,
old-school comics publishers rely primarily on specialized,
out-of-the-way comic shops for distribution of their bread-and-butter
product.