Home / Section: Comic Books Comic History – A Comic Chronicles Installment History of the Comic Strip (in a nutshell) Through 1960 Rudolphe Töpffer – Primitive comic book creator. His books were known as “Graphic Literature”. He developed the concept of the cartoon face more than anyone previous. With a jump from Töpffer … Read more
Home / Section: Cartoonist A Collection of Chips, Crime, and Comic Chronicles Crime Comic Strips Who could have known that newspaper comic strips and crime stories, including noir, were a match made in heaven? Newspaper comic strips are an artistic genre that’s largely forgotten now. The strips that remain for the most part … Read more
Home / Section: Comic Books Passed the Past – Comic Chronicles National Cartoonists’ Day was last week so this is late, but how can it be late when we’re talking about the past? Every year, May 5 is observed as National Cartoonist Day. Why May 5 is considered as National Cartoonist Day? … Read more
Home / Section: Comic Books Comic Chronicles – This Was Then Don’t forgetting comics’ past. McDougall’s Monsters When a child picks up a newspaper, it is often to see the wacky adventures of Snoopy or if Garfield still hates Mondays. Flashback to 1902, children who expected the funny pages instead found the scary drawings of … Read more
After nearly four decades in print across multiple publishers, comic creator Stan Sakai‘s beloved Usagi Yojimbo series has finally received its own long overdue animated series with Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles. Obviously, this isn’t the anthropomorphic samurai rabbit’s first venture into the animation medium and I think it’s fair to assume that the majority … Read more
It isn’t that uncommon for a film (anime or otherwise) adaptation of a book to not do the best job, but the Seirei Gensouki – Spirit Chronicles‘ anime definitely missed a mark or two. Mostly this is simply because the story only really starts to get going in volumes like the two in this omnibus, … Read more
Home / Section: Comic history Comic Chronicles – An Age Still Dreamed Of From around the internet some recent posts about comic strip history. © Tribune Content Agency Kyle Anderson, at The Nerdist, remembers and comparesthe Rogues’ Galleries of Dick Tracy versus The Batman. One of the very best things about the Batman mythology … Read more
I must say, after making it all the way to the end of this almost 200-page volume, I can’t help but feel like it’s a bit misleading to call this volume one. I’m not necessarily saying this to criticize, and I do think there are some interesting elements to the story. However, by the time … Read more
