History of Comics

Comics, which are stories that have happened in life or things that are imagined, are expressed in pictures with or without lines or words, storytelling. Two lines of comics greatly influence every line of comics today, which are Japanese comics (Manga) and European - American comics (Comic). Currently, there is a new series of comics influenced by Japanese Manga and is gradually gaining popularity as Korean Comics (Manhwa). In addition, Manhua (star) of China is also a line of comics that are taking up an increasingly large market share. And comics have been considered the ninth art of mankind. Many festivals and awarding ceremonies for comics have been held in many parts of the world.
- The comic book first appeared in 1732 through satirical engravings by British artist William Hogarth to criticize bad habits at the time. Next, he printed educational stories that were told by juxtaposed drawings.

- Following the steps of Hogarth, the Swiss author Rodolphe Töpffer composed humorous stories and inserted them into drawings. His work is used only for friends, but since 1833, he has published widely, then translated and circulated in a few countries around. Töpffer was also the first person to give an analysis of this new type of art: story telling by painting.

- Initially, comics are just a series of drawings arranged side by side and below each figure is the corresponding text. Until the beginning of the twentieth century, the authors began to use circles to design characters to bring the lines straight into the figure. Comic books have since then found their own style to become more and more popular.

Modern comic books after more than a century of development are divided into 3 main lines:

1. American comic: pioneer in the field of comic books about adventure, detective, science fiction. In particular, the Superman superhero minus image of Superman, Batman was born in the period of World War II and hit the national spirit of the Americans and achieved great success.

2. French-Belgian comics: the initial time was not enthusiastically received by the public for the reason of "spoiling children". Thanks to Hergé (Tintin) and Goscinny (Astérix) and generations of talented writers like Peyo (Xi-trum), Franquin (Spirou and Fantasio), French-Belgian comics gradually changed their face and today is an indispensable spiritual dish of "9th art" lovers

3. Japanese comics - manga "backwards": appeared after other comic lines and only began to be popular in the world since the 80s, the last century but manga had leaps of gods. period and become the most read comic line.