People Who Collect Comic Books Are Known As A Pannapictagraphist

Every year on September 25th, National Comic Book Day honors the art, artists, and stories of comic books. Fans and collectors, readers, and artists come together to celebrate the day with events across the country.

First popularized in the United States, comic books are also called comic magazines. Generally, comic books produce drawn sequential and opposing panels representing individual scenes. Each scene often includes descriptive prose and written narratives. When placed together, the panels form a complete story or a portion of a serial.

• 1842 – One of the earliest known comics printed was The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck. The 1842 hardcover comic book became the first known American comic book.
• 1896 – a comic-book magazine was published in the United States featuring The Yellow Kid in a sequence titled “McFadden’s Row of Flats.” The 196-page book featured black and white print and measured 5×7 inches. It sold for 50 cents.
• 1922 – Comics Monthly begins publication as the first regular monthly comic book series. It mostly contained reprints of newspaper strips, but it set the stage for comics as a periodical format​.
• 1933 – a comic book, Famous Funnies, appeared in the United States. Many believe the work to be the first real comic book. The reprinting of earlier newspaper comic strips established many of the storytelling devices used in comics.
• 1936 – Contrary to what you would believe, the most popular Marvel superhero isn’t the longest-running one. So tough luck, Captain America! While the Captain was introduced in 1941, there was someone who preceded him. It was Ka-Zar the Great, lord of the Jungle who was supposed to make the most of the success of Tarzan. He first appeared in October 1936, three years before Marvel Comics was launched.
• 1938 – American comic books first gained popularity after the 1938 publication of Action Comics.  This included the debut of the superhero Superman
• 1939 – After WW II, crime and horror comics became the most popular genres and garnered a lot of controversy for their depiction of larger-than-life criminals, revenge tales, and gore. They were heavily criticized by educators and librarians, arguing that they were deteriorating the minds of young readers. There was a campaign against “crime comics” led by psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, who also testified at the 1954 U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency.
• 1941 – In late 1941, Wonder Woman makes her first appearance, breaking ground as a powerful female superhero. Earlier that year, in March 1941, Captain America had debuted, famously punching Hitler on his first issue cover. 1941 also quietly marks the first comic story by Stan Lee (a text filler in Captain America Comics #3), a hint of the legend to come​.
• 1951 – The FBI investigated this industry and claimed that the horror and crime shown in these comics resulted in increased juvenile delinquency.
• 1954 – Dr. Fredric Wertham’s controversial book Seduction of the Innocent sparks a U.S. Senate inquiry into comic books and juvenile delinquency. Under public pressure, publishers adopt the Comics Code Authority, a strict self-censorship code, in 1954. Horror and crime comics are severely curtailed, and even superheroes become tamer for a time. (Goodbye, graphic violence; hello, wholesome Superman’s-pal-Jimmy-Olsen adventures.)
• 1960s – Marvel creates some of its major superheroes. Among them are the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man
• 1960s – Underground comix developed. They reflected youth and drug counterculture
• 1970 – The first notable comic book convention (San Diego’s Golden State Comic-Con, later known as San Diego Comic-Con) takes place in 1970 with only about 100 fans. This marks the start of fan culture events that will grow into massive annual gatherings of comic and pop culture enthusiasts (eventually exceeding 130,000 attendees by the 2010s​).
• 1986 – A pivotal year in comics. Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore’s Watchmen were published in 1986, showing that superhero stories can be complex, dark, and literary. These works (along with Maus around the same time) bolster the notion of graphic novels as serious art. Watchmen later makes Time Magazine’s 100 Best Novels list – a comic among literary classics.
• 1992 – Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus, a profound tale of the Holocaust depicted with anthropomorphic characters, is awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation in 1992​. It’s the first time a comic book is honored with a Pulitzer, a watershed moment recognizing the medium’s literary power.
• 2002 – To help attract new readers, the first Free Comic Book Day is held on May 4, 2002, cleverly timed with the release of the Spider-Man feature film​. Comic shops worldwide give out free issues, an annual tradition that continues on the first Saturday each May and introduces countless kids to comics
• 2007 – On November 13, 2007, Marvel Comics launched Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, a subscription service allowing readers to read many comics from Marvel’s history online
• 2010s – A wave of big-budget superhero films dominates the decade. In 2012, Marvel’s The Avengers proves a shared cinematic universe can succeed spectacularly. By 2019, Avengers: Endgame breaks the record for the highest-grossing film worldwide (at least until a rival re-release edged it out)​. Superhero movies collectively gross tens of billions, and characters like Iron Man and Groot become household names. Comic-based movies even win major awards (Black Panther won 3 Oscars in 2019, including Best Original Score and Costume, and was the first superhero film nominated for Best Picture)
• 2020s – Comics continue to evolve. We see more diverse characters headlining books (e.g., Miles Morales as Spider-Man, Kamala Khan as Ms. Marvel) and more creators of diverse backgrounds rising in the industry. Digital comics and webcomics thrive, reaching readers through phones and tablets. The Covid-19 pandemic challenges comic distribution in 2020, but the community adapts with virtual comic-cons and online releases. Comics remain resilient and more accessible than ever, whether in print or on a screen.
• The earliest comic strips (which later gave birth to comic books) displayed dialogue in bubbles or balloons above characters’ heads.
• As an art form, the designs can be quite intricate. For example, text, dialogue, personalities, color, and imagery all enhance part of a storyline. Over time, these storylines also distinguish eras, artists, genres, and themes.
• People who collect comic books are known as pannapictagraphist.
• The term “comic book” comes from the first book sold as a book reprinted from humorous comic strips. Despite their name, comic books are not all humorous in tone and feature stories in all genres.
• There are a lot of comics around the world that are incredibly popular. One of the most popular comics is One Piece, which has sold more than 473 million copies around the world. One Piece is a Japanese manga series, which has been illustrated and written by Eiichiro Oda.
• A comic book or comicbook is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential, juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes
  • It also called comic magazine or simply comic
  • Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and written narrative
  • Dialog is, usually contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form
  • Comics have some origins in 18th-century Japan
• The largest comic book market is Japan
  • Annual sales of 1.9 billion manga books/magazines in Japan
  • This is the equivalent to 15 issues per person
• The smartphone and the tablet have turned out to be an ideal medium for online distribution
• With the release of Avenging Spider-Man #1, Marvel also became the first publisher to provide free digital copies as part of the print copy of the comic book
• What’s Jughead’s name?  Move over DC and Marvel, the Archie Comics have their own secrets. So Jughead had a real name, it was Forsythe Pendleton Jones II. He also had sister named Forsythia “Jellybean” Jones.
• Disney’s Donald Duck sets the record for appearing in the most films. He is also the fifth most published character after the popular ones like Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and Wolverine.
• 60% of Manga Readers are women. Said to originate from scrolls dating back to the 12 century Japanese manga is known for having dramatic plots that can include comedic events, powerful fighters, and relationship struggles. The art form, which can at times be more graphic than traditional American comics, is mostly read by women as opposed to their male counterparts. 
• Comic and graphic novel sales fell 6.5% in 2017. Though comic books aren’t seeing a wane in popularity, their sales are definitely falling. At least, they are in physical form. As new age readers have abandoned printed copies of their favorite comics, digital sales have risen.
• 60% of people started reading comics before they turned 10. Many comic lovers started reading comics before the age of 10, meaning comic books aided them in their journey to literacy. In fact, comics are said to promote literacy in children, and young readers are actually encouraged to pick up comic books as they involve the reader in a complex negotiation of words and images, making logical sense of the narrative, and weaving the action together based on the elementary cues in illustration.
• The Incredible Hulk was originally meant to be gray. Ink problems with printing created the mean, green monster as we know him today.
• Stan Lee got his start by writing obituaries. They were for celebrities in New York.

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