GOOD MORNING!

Exploring
Comics Graphic
novels
ELOISA JEAN SURIAO
BSE-ENGLISH 3B
OBJECTIVES
Students should be able to:

1 identify what is comics and graphic novels

2 difference between comics and graphic novels

3 engage on the different collaborative activities

 What comes in
your mind when
you think of the
word 'comics'?
 DESCRIPTION
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Thomas Nast - most influential
England and America since the early cartoonist of this period, he played a
1800s, originating as satirical and large role in bringing down “Boss”
political cartoons printed in Tweed’s corrupt political machine in
newspapers and periodicals. 1870s New York. - through a series of
cartoons heavily critical of Tweed.
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William M. Tweed was an American
politician most notable for being the
boss of Tammany Hall. Tweed was
convicted of stealing an estimated
$25 million dollars from New York
City taxpayers through political
corruption.

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His illustrations popularized icons

American caricaturist and editorial Tammy hall - Democratic political
such as the Republican elephant, the
cartoonist often considered to be the organization in New York City,
Democratic donkey, and even the
"Father of the American Cartoon" founded in 1789.
modern image of Santa Claus.
HISTORY
Are you ready to play? Get your game faces on!
 Platinum Age
1897-1938
1897
THE YELLOW KID IN
MCFADDEN’S FLATS
RAIN
- FIRST COMIC
1896 compilation
BOOK, INSOMUCH
THAT IT BORE THE
DOWNPOUR RICHARD F. books
PUNCH - COMICS CRY HOSPITAL
PHRASE “COMIC
CLOUD OUTCAULT’S THE WILLIAM RANDOLPH
CHRISTMAS
GAINED POPULARITY THE
HOSPITAL
BOOK” ON ITS BACK
UMBRELLA YELLOW KID HEARST’S NEW YORK
THROUGH KATZENJAMMER
COVER. BECAME
EYES SO JOURNAL AMERICAN
KIDS, HAPPY
- BLACK AND WHITE PUBLICATION IN
GIFT POPULAR
TEAR DUCTS BYEMERGENCY
YELLOW KID
THIS BRITISH WHEELCHAIR HOOLIGAN, BUSTER
EMERGENCY
REPRINTS OF SANTA CLAUS WEEP CREATOR OUTCAULT
PATIENT WHEELCHAIR
BROWN, AND MUTT
POPULAR HUMOR MAGAZINE
DECEMBER IT WAS DRAWN IN PATIENT
& JEFF.
NEWSPAPER COMIC TWO DIFFERENT JOSEPH PULITZER’S
STRIPS. NEWSPAPERS BY NEW YORK WORLD BY
TWO DIFFERENT ARTIST GEORGE LUKS
ARTISTS AT THE
SAME TIME.
 Platinum Age
1897-1938
1922 March
1937
FIRST MONTHLY
RAIN EDITION
CRY OF
COMIC BOOK, 1933 February DETECTIVE
APTLY TITLED 1935
FUNNIES
CRY ON COMICS #1,
DOWNPOUR
COMICS EYES
CLOUD PARADE BECAME HOSPITAL JERRY SIEGEL SIEGEL AND
TEAR DUCTS
MONTHLY DC COMICS’
UMBRELLA THE FIRST COLOR AND JOE
HOSPITAL SHUSTER
WEEP
EYES
COMIC BOOK PRECURSOR, SHUSTER - INTRODUCED
TEAR DUCTS EMERGENCY
PRINTED IN THE
WEEP NATIONAL ALLIED
WHEELCHAIR CREATOR OF THEIR
EMERGENCY
NOW STANDARD PUBLICATIONS,
PATIENT SUPERMAN.
WHEELCHAIR
CHARACTER
SIZE OF 6 5/8 X PUBLISHED NEW WORKING
PATIENT ON SLAM BRADLEY,
10 1/4 INCHES. FUN #1 NEW FUN IN THE FOREBEAR
OCTOBER 1935. OF SUPERMAN.
 Golden Age
1938-1956
1938

WITH THE DEBUT

OF SUPERMAN IN mid-1950s,
RAIN
ACTION COMICS October 1940s
CRY
#1. BATMAN 1939, THE COMIC BOOKS
DOWNPOUR SUPERMAN,
PREMIERED
CLOUD LESS CRY CONTAINING MORE
BATMAN AND EYES
THAN A YEAR
UMBRELLA MARVEL COMICS’ PREDECESSOR, TIMELY SERIOUS THEMES
CAPTAIN MARVEL TEAR DUCTS
LATER IN PUBLICATIONS, RELEASED MARVEL COMICS #1 SUCH AS CRIME,
EYES
TITLES EACH WEEP
DETECTIVE WHICH INCLUDED THE HUMAN TORCH, ANGEL, TEAR DUCTS ROMANCE,
REGULARLY SOLD
AND PRINCE NAMOR THE SUB-MARINER. ALONG WEEP WESTERN, AND
COMICS #27. IN THE RANGE OF
WITH FAWCETT COMICS’ SUPERHERO CAPTAIN HORROR.
1.5 MILLION COPIES
MARVEL, DC COMICS’ FLASH AND GREEN
PER MONTH.
LANTERN DEBUTED IN 1940. MARVEL’S CAPTAIN
AMERICA AND DC’S WONDER WOMAN WERE
FIRST PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING YEAR.
 Silver Age
1954
1956-1970
Comics Code CANCELLING
-MAKEUP
FREDRIC SUPERMAN REPRESENTED
WERTHAM
Authority MANY HORROR,
BEAUTY FASCIST IDEALS, BATMAN AND
WROTE IN HIS CRIME, AND
EYESHADOW ROBIN PROMOTED A “IN EVERY INSTANCE GOOD SHALL MAKEUP
BESTSELLING
LIPSTICK ROMANCE TITLES
HOMOSEXUAL LIFESTYLE, AND TRIUMPH OVER EVIL…”
BLUSH
BOOK WHICH VIOLATED
BEAUTY
EYELINER
WONDER WOMAN WAS A
SEDUCTION OF THE CODE
EYESHADOW
LESBIAN WITH A BONDAGE “IF CRIME IS DEPICTED IT SHALL BE AS A LIPSTICK
THE INNOCENT. .
FIXATION. MEMBERS OF SORDID AND UNPLEASANT ACTIVITY.” BLUSH
-REVAMPED
CONGRESS WERE SO ALARMED EYELINER
EXISTING
THAT THEY CALLED WERTHAM “FEMALES SHALL BE DRAWN
SUPERHEROES
TO TESTIFY BEFORE THE REALISTICALLY WITHOUT EXAGGERATION
AND CREATED
SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE ON OF ANY PHYSICAL QUALITIES.”
NEW SUPERHERO
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY.
CHARACTERS.
“…VAMPIRES AND VAMPIRISM, GHOULS,
CANNIBALISM AND WEREWOLFISM ARE
PROHIBITED.”
 October
Silver Age
1956 1956-1970
THE RETURN OF
MAKEUP
FLASH, ALBEIT
AN UPDATED 1950s through the
BEAUTY
VERSION
EYESHADOW OF 1960s
FLASH,
LIPSTICKIN
BLUSH #4
SHOWCASE FROM DARK AND SUPERNATURAL COMIC BOOK
EYELINER
MARKS THE THEMES TO BOOKS CONTAINING SILLY PLOTS
BEGINNING OF AND A HIGH DEGREE OF CAMP. SUCH PLOTS
THE SILVER AGE, INVOLVED SUPERBABY AND “THE SUPER-
WHEN MONKEY FROM KRYPTON” IN SUPERBOY #76
SUPERHERO (OCTOBER 1959) AND BATMAN AND ROBIN
COMIC BOOKS
TEAMING UP WITH COMEDIAN JERRY LEWIS TO
SAW A RENEWED
FIGHT THE JOKER IN JERRY LEWIS #97
COMMERCIAL
SUCCESS.
(DECEMBER 1966).
 Bronze Age
1970
1970-1985
MAKEUP 1970s
MORE REALISTIC 1971
BEAUTY (June-July 1973). THE TOMB OF
STYLE WITHIN
EYESHADOW THE COMICS CODE DRACULA IN 1972 AND
COMIC BOOKS
LIPSTICK
THE BEGINNING OF AUTHORITY RELAXED GHOST RIDER AND
BLUSH
EYELINER THE BRONZE AGE OF SOME STANDARDS, TALES OF THE
new artist of GOING SO FAR AS TO
COMIC BOOKS IS ZOMBIE IN 1973.
the generation STATE, “VAMPIRES, ADDITIONAL
MARKED BY THE
SHOCKING MURDER GHOULS, AND SUPERNATURAL
NEAL ADAMS, JOHN BYRNE, WEREWOLVES SHALL CHARACTERS MAN-
OF PETER PARKER’S
GEORGE PEREZ, FRANK MILLER BE PERMITTED TO BE BAT, SWAMP THING,
GIRLFRIEND GWEN
STACY AT THE HANDS USED WHEN AND BLADE WERE
OF THE GREEN HANDLED IN THE INTRODUCED IN THE
GOBLIN IN AMAZING CLASSIC TRADITION EARLY 1970S.
SPIDER-MAN #121-122 …”
 Bronze Age
1970-1985
1970s.
UNDERSTANDING
MOST FAMOUSLY THAT A VAST
DURING THE MAJORITY OF THEIR
COLLABORATIVE SUPERHEROES WERE
ADVENTURES OF CAUCASIAN MEN, DC
GREEN LANTERN AND AND MARVEL
GREEN ARROW AS INTRODUCED A SLEW
THEY FOUGHT OF MINORITY
AGAINST RACISM, SUPERHEROES SUCH
POLLUTION, AND AS STORM, BLACK
SOCIAL INJUSTICE. LIGHTNING, BLADE,
AND THE GREEN
LANTERN JOHN
STEWART.
 Dark Age
1985-1996
1985
MAKEUP 1996.
mid-1980s through
TO COMMEMORATE DC
BEAUTY the early 1990s,
COMICS’ 50TH ANNIVERSARY,
EYESHADOW THE SALES SLUMP
DCLIPSTICK
PUBLISHED CRISIS ON ANTI-HEROES WERE CONTRIBUTED TO
BLUSH EARTHS AS A 12-
INFINITE POPULAR. DARK, READERS WITNESSED THE BANKRUPTCY OF
EYELINER
ISSUE COMIC BOOK EVENT PESSIMISTIC STORIES SUPERMAN DYING, MARVEL COMICS IN
REIGNED, AS IN ALAN BATMAN BECOMING
ULTIMATELY CRISIS ON MOORE’S WATCHMEN, CRITICALLY INJURED,
INFINITE EARTHS WAS A WHERE A WORLD AND GREEN LANTERN
MAJOR SUCCESS FOR DC LOOKS DOWN ON HAL JORDAN
COMICS. ONCE MIGHTY SLAUGHTERING HIS
SUPERHEROES OR IN FELLOW GREEN
FRANK MILLER’S LANTERNS.
BATMAN: THE DARK
KNIGHT RETURNS
 Modern Age
1996-Present
1996
MAKEUP
ALEX ROSS’S
2000 OVER EIGHTY YEARS SINCE THE
KINGDOM
BEAUTY COME IN
DEBUT OF SUPERMAN, THE
1996, WHICH
EYESHADOW DURING THIS PERIOD, THE MODEST
LIPSTICK BACK TO COMIC BOOK INDUSTRY HAS
HARKENED COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS SUCCESS OF THE X-
BLUSH REMAINED RELEVANT THROUGH
THEEYELINER
OPTIMISM AND ATTEMPTED TO RECTIFY MEN HELPED PUT
THE EARLY ADOPTION OF
STRENGTH OF SILVER THEIR MISTAKES BY THE POPULARITY OF
DIGITAL COMICS, SUCCESSFUL
AGE SUPERHEROES, CREATING A LEANER THE SUPERHERO
SATURATION INTO THE FILM
MARKS THE BUSINESS PLAN AND MOVIE BACK ON
AND TELEVISION MARKETS, AND
BEGINNING OF THE PUTTING MORE EFFORT TRACK.
MAINTAINING A STRONG
MODERN AGE. INTO A FEWER NUMBER
CONNECTION TO THEIR FAN-
OF PROJECTS.
BASE.
Graphic
Novels
 Description
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We may predict how Ancient
Egyptians and other civilizations
Graphic Novel has a long, and
used hieroglyphs, illustrations to
interesting history.
communicate each other and for
record managements.
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As the technology developed, the
machines were able to mass-
produce everything in short period
of time which lead for people to
have more free time. During their
leisure time, people started to read
the newspaper comic strip.

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Max Gaines,1934, have began to

arranged little full-color magazines In 1937, the comic book stepped out
of only newspaper comic strip and from the comic strip by creation of
sold in droves, stores and Super-man.
newsstands.
HISTORY
 American Graphic
Novel Revolution!
1970
“GRAPHIC NOVEL” BEGAN TO APPEAR IN
1978
AMERICAN
SUMMER COMIC BOOK CIRCLES. THE HE CREATED A
COMICS HISTORIANS ARGUED TO COMIC
BOOKBOOK
DETERMINED WHICH IS THE FIRST ONE THAT INSERT FOR
BEACH
TRULY QUALIFIES AS BEING CALLED A
VACATION NEWSPAPERS THE NEW YORK TIMES FEATURED THE
CHAPTER
GRAPHIC NOVEL. WITH MANY ARGUMENTS,
SUNSCREEN FEATURING
READ HIS GRAPHIC NOVEL IN THEIR NEWSPAPER IT
THERE ARE ONE NOVEL THAT ALL THE DETECTIVE
AUTHOR WAS GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION OF THE
COMICS HISTORIANS AGREED UPON, “A SUPERHERO THE MOVIE, ALIEN, BY A MASTER WRITER ARCHIE
CONTRACT WITH GOD AND OTHER SPIRIT IN THE GOODWIN AND WITH ARTIST NAMED WALTER
TENEMENT STORIES“,WHICH WERE CREATED 1940S. SIMONSON.
BY WILL EISNER IN 1978.

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 American Graphic Novel
1970s Revolution!
MARVEL COMICS
Most notable CANCELLING
ANDMAKEUP
DC COMICS,
THE MAJOR THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN collections are: MANY HORROR,
BEAUTY
SUPERHERO MARVEL AND ANNOUNCED CRIME, AND
EYESHADOW MAKEUP
COMICS
LIPSTICK HEADLINE AS “DEATH OF ROMANCE TITLES
1. BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS
BLUSH
PUBLISHERS, CAPTAIN MARVEL DELAYED DUE WHICH VIOLATED
BEAUTY
EYELINER BY FRANK MILLER
ANNOUNCED TO ACCIDENT” THE CODE
EYESHADOW
2. WATCHMEN BY ALAN MOORE AND LIPSTICK
GRAPHIC NOVEL .
DAVE GIBBONS BLUSH
LINES. -REVAMPED
3. ELFQUEST BY WENDY AND RICHARD EYELINER
EXISTING
PINI.
SUPERHEROES
AND CREATED
NEW SUPERHERO
CHARACTERS.
 American Graphic Novel
Revolution!
1990s
AS THE 20TH CENTURY FADED AWAY AND 21ST CENTURY ZOOMED INTO PLACE, THE CHANGES WITHIN
THE GRAPHIC NOVEL HAD BEEN ARISE.
NEIL GAIMAN’S SANDMAN SERIES BECAME A HIT IN THE BOOKSTORES, SELLING FAR MORE COPIES
COLLECTED AS GRAPHIC NOVELS THAN IT HAD SOLD IN COMIC BOOK FORM. THIS LED THE COLOR
COMICS PUBLISHERS TO START DESIGN MORE COMICS WITH THE BOOK COLLECTIONS.

LOTS OF COMICS WERE TURNED INTO MOVIES, FOR EXAMPLE, X-MEN AND SPIDER-MAN.
MAINSTREAMING BOOKSTORES WANTED TO CARRY GRAPHIC NOVELS RELATED TO THESE FILMS, AS
WELL AS THE GRAPHIC NOVELS THAT MAY BECOME NEXT HOLLYWOOD HIT.

MANGA, JAPANESE COMICS, BECAME POPULAR WITH PEOPLE WHO WEREN’T INTERESTED IN
AMERICAN COMICS.
 Graphic Novels ,
Today
2002

SUMMER
2000s
IN 2002, AMERICAN CONSUMERS PURCHASED
APPROXIMATELY $100 MILLION ON ORIGINAL
GRAPHICBEACH
NOVELS AND BOOK COLLECTIONS GRAPHIC NOVELS ARE GETTING MORE
VACATION
OF COMIC BOOKS. POPULAR EVEN THOUGH THE SALES OF THE
SUNSCREEN
MOST BOOKS ARE SHRINKING. AS THE
GRAPHIC NOVEL BECAME THE STANDARD
PART OF POP CULTURE, THEY ARE INVESTING
NEW AND VARIED VENUES. IT WOULD BE
POSSIBLE TO SEE GRAPHIC NOVELS IN CD-
ROM AND SELL IN VIDEO STORES.

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What is the differences
of comics and graphic
novels?
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