The History of Comic Books
Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More
Gary Arndt
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | One of the most popular forms of media is comic books. |
| 0:03.3 | Initially created as entertainment for children, |
| 0:05.7 | they have since grown into a global media consumed by people of all ages. |
| 0:09.4 | The development of the comic book was not something that came out of nowhere. |
| 0:13.4 | It was the culmination of a type of communication that had actually began |
| 0:17.0 | thousands of years earlier. |
| 0:18.8 | Learn more about comic books, where they came from and the business behind them |
| 0:22.3 | on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. comic books, despite being a relatively modern phenomenon, |
| 0:43.0 | actually have roots that extend back into the distant past. |
| 0:46.0 | Comic books are simply a form of what is known as sequential art. |
| 0:50.0 | Sequential art, as the name implies, is using a series of images to tell a story or convey a message. |
| 0:57.0 | Several thousand years ago, sequential art was probably the most important form of art in that it was a means of communication for people who were largely illiterate. |
| 1:05.2 | In theory, the use of pictures to tell a story can be dated back as far as 20,000 years ago to the cave |
| 1:10.1 | paintings found in places like Las Coe in France. True sequential art didn't appear |
| 1:15.1 | until the rise of ancient civilizations. There are sequential works of art found in |
| 1:18.9 | ancient Egyptian tombs that tell the stories of the people buried there. There are |
| 1:22.4 | Basrelief sculptures found in Greek temples that tell the stories of the people buried there. There are Bas relief sculptures found in Greek temples that tell the story of the gods. |
| 1:26.0 | In ancient India, sequential images were often used with narrators to tell stories. |
| 1:30.0 | In China, there were panels made of silk water paper paper which were also used to tell stories. |
| 1:35.0 | In the middle of Rome today you can see Trajan's column, which sequentially tells the story of the military victories of the Emperor Trajan using images. |
| 1:44.0 | Even with the development of writing, there was still a need for sequential art to tell stories to those who couldn't read or write. |
| 1:50.0 | The bio tapestry is a 70 meter long depiction of William the Conqueror's invasion of England |
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