Comic Books History - Part I

Because amusing books have got such as a long history I'm breaking up this series into respective parts.

Comic books. Arguably one of the biggest industries in the world. To be able to hive away every amusing ever written you would necessitate a metropolis the size of New House Of York and even then I believe you would run out of room. No question, amusing books are here to stay. So when did this multi billion dollar a twelvemonth industry actually start.

Actually the beginning of amusing books is not really known for certain. Up until recently there was one theory of what the first amusing book was. Then new grounds suggested that this was incorrect. We may never really cognize when amusing books started but as of this authorship the first known amusing book was "The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck" which was written in 1837 somewhere in Europe in respective languages. In 1842 an English version of this amusing was printed for the United States, more than specifically New House Of York City. The amusing was 40 pages long and didn't really resemble the comedians that we are used to seeing today. There were no word balloons with dialogue. Instead there was textual matter typed at the underside of each panel to depict the story. A transcript of this amusing was recently discovered in Oakland CA. The amusing itself was done by Rudolphe Topffer who in Europe, was considered to be the Godhead of the image story. He created the amusing strip in 1827 as a graphical novel. After that he created 7 more than graphical novels in many different linguistic communications including transcripts for the United States. These books stayed in black and white until about 1877. This was considered to be the Victorian Age of amusing books which is still uncomplete and still being researched even until today.

Even though many comedians were printed after that, they have got fallen into obscureness and the adjacent known amusing book was published in 1894 called "The Yellow Kid." The Yellow Child was actually a fictional character derived from the amusing "Hogan's Alley" but the child was so popular that the amusing book became known by his name rather than by the functionary statute title of the amusing book. Hogan's Alley was created by a gentleman by the name of Richard Outcault who actually got his start authorship for "Truth Magazine". In an issue of "Truth" he did a fictional character sketch featuring "The Yellow Kid" and it's from that initial publication that the existent amusing came into being a short time later. It is believed that Outcault got his inspiration for "Hogan's Alley" from respective cartoonists including Michael Angelo Wolf and Prince Charles Saalburg, both of whom used street children in their cartoons. It is believed that the statute title "Hogan's Alley" came from the song “O'Reilly and the Four Hundred" which starts off "Down in Hogan's Alley."

In the adjacent of this series I will be covering what is referred to as "The Platinum Age Of Comics" which spans the old age 1897 to 1938 which have the extremely popular "Mutt And Jeff" and "Little Orphan Annie" comics. You don't desire to lose this.