Concept in Definition ABC

We use the concept of a comic in our language in two senses, on the one hand, any story is called a comic brief and entertaining that someone narrates to another, for example, “Juan always comes up with very funny comics from the training".

Narrated story through vignettes or drawings that may or may not contain text

And on the other hand, being undoubtedly its most recognized and popular reference, in our language the comic strip is the story told by means of vignettes or drawings that it may contain text or not and which we can find in the newspapers, failing that, being an autonomous edition of some editorial. Also to media as a whole that contains them, it is called a comic strip.

A cartoon, in the second use that we refer, then, will be the juxtaposed illustrations and other images in deliberate sequence that will have the purpose of transmitting information or eliciting an aesthetic response from the reader. Although of course, this of the several images is a proposal, we can find a single painting, among other possibilities.

Distinctive features. Influences of cinema and literature

Among its distinctive and most recognizable features is the use of balloons in which it will appear content of the text, mostly corresponding to the dialogue or the expressions of each of the characters.

Unfortunately and mistakenly for a long time the comic was considered more than anything as a cultural by-product for which many have proposed to consider it as the ninth art, in clear irony to that he movie theater it is considered as the seventh and photography as the eighth.

When it comes to finding an influence, the cartoon undoubtedly has direct motivations and inspirations to the cinema and to the literature.

Comics have traditionally been made on paper, although of course, with the advent of new technologies the digital form has greatly dominated the field with the e-comic, web comics and their Similar. A comic strip can only constitute a strip in the press, a complete page in this or a magazine or a book per se and regarding its exploitation, it could be said that there has been no place in the virgin world of comics, addressing the same one plurality of genres; meanwhile, the professional who is in charge of writing, drawing, labeling and even coloring them is known by the name of cartoonist.

Comics, Tebeo y Monitos, other ways of naming it

Although the name of comic strip is the most widespread and widespread name among Spanish-speaking countries, there are some countries in which they are given a name more local, like comics in Spain and Monitos in Mexico and Chile, although from the seventies the Anglo-Saxon term comic began to spread more and more in Hispanic countries.

We must say that in English-speaking countries the comic is known as comic. The United States is undoubtedly one of the most prolific nations in this area of ​​entertainment, having developed and created countless comics or comics, and along with the same characters as the starred. In addition to the success achieved in the house itself, many North American comics knew how to transcend borders and became classics of other cultures and countries.

In the specific case of the United States, it has stood out for the development of superhero comics, Batman, Superman, to name the most Paradigmatic arose from comics or comics and then made their stellar leaps to television and movies, but both are products of the comic more pure.

Even the two comics coincide in temporal space, belonging to the thirties of the century past and were the product of the DC Comics publishing house, one of the most relevant.

Traditions

There are three great comic book traditions, each with its own set of comics. production and distribution: the American, the Belgian franc and the Japanese, better known as manga., meanwhile, with a lower global significance, although with golden phases and relevant authors are the Argentine, the Spanish, the British and the Italian.

From the above it is clear that this genre has been approached in almost all places on the planet and in almost all it has achieved tremendous success and dissemination.

The importance of the newspaper in its diffusion

The newspapers, without a doubt, have contributed a lot to the expansion of the comic strip since traditionally they include in his comic back covers, created by various cartoonists and which have a continuity throughout the editions of the daily. The characters of the same ones end up becoming great characters within it Newspaper and the reader eagerly awaits the next day to continue reading the comics.

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