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Also Known As Sequential Art
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Sequential art: stories told in drawn panels, from newspaper strips through comic books to graphic novels and manga. Comics grew up inside the newspaper wars of the 1890s, built their own publishing industry in the twentieth century, and now feed characters and stories to film, television and games.

Facts
Origin Year
1895 1
1895 marks the Yellow Kid in the New York World, the conventional start of the American newspaper strip; Rodolphe Topffer's drawn picture stories of the 1830s and older sequential picture narratives are counted by longer histories.
Origin
Richard Outcault's The Yellow Kid, which appeared in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World from 1895, is usually credited as one of the first newspaper comic strips, though the form developed gradually before it. 1
Place of Origin
New York City, United States 1
Primary Format
A sequence of cartoons arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative. 1
Typical Distribution
Historically syndicated by a syndicate to many newspapers and published in newspapers and magazines; since the late twentieth century also collected in graphic novels and comic albums and published as webcomics. 1
Connections

Associated With

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Jerry Siegel, Figures
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Joe Shuster, Figures
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Richard Outcault's The Yellow Kid, the strip usually credited as the medium's popular origin, appeared in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World from 1895.

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Osamu Tezuka, Figures

Known as the God of Manga, foundational to the comics medium in Japan with works such as Astro Boy and Black Jack.

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Will Eisner, Figures
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Media Entries

Sources
1. Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Comic strip, Newspapers section
    Most newspaper comic strips are syndicated; a syndicate hires people to write and draw a strip and then distributes it to many newspapers for a fee.
  • Hearst in San Francisco section, on the Yellow Kid strip
    The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking
  • Comics, term coined by Will Eisner in Comics and Sequential Art (1985)
  • New York World, lead section
    The New York World was a newspaper published in New York City from 1860 to 1931.
  • Comic strip, opening section
    A comic strip (also known as a strip cartoon) is a sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative.
  • Comics, Forms and formats section
    Since the late 20th century, bound volumes such as graphic novels and comic albums have become increasingly common, along with webcomics.
  • Associated With: Joseph Pulitzer, The Yellow Kid, Origin
  • Associated With: Jerry Siegel
  • Associated With: Joe Shuster
  • Associated With: Will Eisner
  • Associated With: DC Comics
  • Media Entries: Action Comics #1
  • Associated With: Publication of Action Comics #1
  • Media Entries: Graphic Novel
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.View the Source
Calvin and Hobbes (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationMedia Entries: Calvin and HobbesView the Source
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