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History of Comics The origin of comics is attributed to ancient times.
The paintings found in the ancient graves of 3400 years ago depict scenes of harvesting and grain processing.
Scientists also find similar ancient drawings made with Japanese ink.
The history of America, as it turned out, is also baked into the pictures of comics.
According to them, we can learn about the lives of people during the reign of Hernando Cortez.
During this period, comics began to be supplemented with signatures.
The first comics found in Europe describe the Norman conquest of England in 1066.
The pictures and texts on them are already combined.
Since the beginning of the 12th century in Japan, monks were fond of drawing pictures on rolls of paper.
Since the 19th century, notebooks with funny and popular stories have become widespread.
Religious stories were also often reflected in drawings made on the stained glass windows of cathedrals.
Rodolphe Toepfer, together with McCloud called the father of modern comics, in the middle of the 19th century, was the first to use the method of enclosing a picture in a frame and combining drawings with text.
In Japan, during the same period, magazines with cartoons became very popular.
Kitazawa Rakiten and Okamoto Ippei became the first famous artists in Japan to create an entire series of short comics.
Thanks to Japan, comics began to be printed in US newspapers.
In Europe, comics developed in the format of booklets, i.e. long stories with a branched plot were created.
World War II had an impact on the development of comics.
There was a division of the creators of comics into separate authors an artist and a writer.
After the end of the war, comics are actively developing in Japan.
Osamu Tezuka made a great contribution to the development of the Manga style.
Comics have become popular in all segments of society.
They are read with pleasure by both men and women.
In the 90s, Japanese Manga comics became widely known outside of Japan.
