CARTOON ART

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.