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22 Feb, 2015 Author: Yana Shelyakina
The history of the creation of comics, as a separate genre, begins in the XIX century.
The development of printing technology played an important role here.
The political European cartoons that preceded the comics (the end of the XVIII century), as well as the engravings made by William Hogarth, were drawings of one series that make up the story.
Rodolphe Toepffer and Wilhelm Busch contributed to the development of comics with their creativity.
They are considered to be the ones who invented comics.
Rudolf Tepfer was born in the family of an artist.
At first, he worked as a teacher, and then he managed to establish his own school.
As a professor at the University of Geneva, he taught literature.
In addition to all this, Rudolf was very fond of drawing humorous stories.
So his work (one of the first) "The History of Monsieur Vieux Bois" was published in 1937.
These hand drawn stories are similar in appearance to modern comics: drawings that followed each other, and there were explanatory texts to them.
The German poet and artist Wilhelm Busch made a number of comic stories, their pictures were in no way inferior to the texts.
Bush was born in the town of Wiedenzal, located near Gonnover.
The art academies in which he studied were in Munich, Dusseldorf and Antwerp.
After working for some time in the magazines "Munich Lubok" and "Flying Leaf", where he was engaged in drawing pictures for comic stories of other authors, Bush began to write his own texts.
Already in 1865, a series of his poems was published under the title "Max and Moritz", which became the most popular.
The poems were dedicated to two tomboys, who sometimes arranged all sorts of tricks (it is worth noting quite harmless).
In addition to "Max and Moritz", Bush created several more series of various illustrations.
In 1867 – "Hans Hoekebein, the unfortunate raven", in 1870 - "St. Anthony of Padua", in 1879- "Phipps the Monkey" and many others.
One of the first authors of comics, the American Rudolf Derks, inspired by the stories of Max and Moritz, also creates his own comics "Katzenjemer's Children".
The history of creating comics has gone a long way, and today we can buy this magazine with pictures in almost any store.
Some fans of this genre even collect entire collections of rare copies belonging to the same series.
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