Comics is a medium that expresses ideas through images, usually combined with text, most often arranged as a sequence of panels. Devices such as speech balloons, captions and onomatopoeia carry dialogue, narration and sound effects. Cartooning and other illustration are its most common image-making methods, and its output ranges from comic strips and gag cartoons to comic books, graphic novels and webcomics; theorists and historians do not agree on a single definition, some stressing the combination of image and text, others sequence, and others mass reproduction or recurring characters.
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MediumA medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. 1 Signature TechniqueA sequence of panels using speech balloons, captions and onomatopoeia to indicate dialogue, narration and sound. 1 Notable ExampleThe Upside-Downs of Old Man Muffaroo and Little Lady Lovekins (1903-1905) by Gustave Verbeek. 1 Disputed
Place of OriginNo single point of origin; European comics are often traced to Rodolphe Töpffer's 1830s cartoon strips, with parallel early traditions in the United States and Japan. 1 No single point of origin; parallel early traditions developed in Europe, the United States and Japan. Comics
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Animation, Art Forms Comics and animation share a lineage in sequential visual storytelling, and many creators have worked across both forms (e.g. comic strips adapted into animated cartoons).
Illustration, Art Forms Comics and illustration share the same visual-narrative drawing tradition, and many comics artists trained and worked as illustrators.
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Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information.
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The history of European comics is often traced to Rodolphe Töpffer's cartoon strips of the 1830s, while Wilhelm Busch's and his Max and Moritz also had a global impact from 1865 onwards.
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An example is Gustave Verbeek, who wrote his comic series The Upside Downs of Old Man Muffaroo and Little Lady Lovekins between 1903 and 1905.
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William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697 - 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, cartoonist, and satirist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode.
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"Cow tools" is a cartoon from The Far Side by American cartoonist Gary Larson, published on October 28, 1982.
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Larson, Gary (American cartoonist, born 1950)
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