Comics in popular culture

comics, specially super-heroes comic have had an important influence over childhood, the archetype of a brave and kind superheroe was popular in the 80´s, it was an image kids suppose to follow and imitate, the man who lost everything but took control of his life, defeating every obstacle and saving the day no matter the circunstances inspired not only little kids but also mature people to follow their dreams, comics were also more accessesible than books to young population, because of the ilustrations.

In 90´s comics evolve to become darker, script increase the sense and humanity, heroes could be defeated or even die, superheroes were transformed into powerless people and focus on daily problemsand they even had importatn adictions.

A little bit of history

The printing is considered the main triggered in comic´s history by specialist like David kunzle or pedro porcel. Printing was introduced to westerns by Gutenberg in 1446 and since the XVI century, printing arrived to France and other countries

After a long time the british humorist in XVIII add the famous dialogue ballon, Isaac Cruishank use this method to make fun of the kings and emperors.

but the first comic is known to be “Lenardo und Blandine” by Josef Franz Von Goez.

until XX century the most famous comics consisted only in social satire without a deep story or great number of pages.

After world war II the comic sales started to improve and readers were counted by millions including children teen and mature.

Different names

A significant problem when attempting a taxonomic classification of the comic is the number of names given to these publications in many languages; "Comic" Anglo-Saxon term that perhaps is the most popular in the world, reached the end of a playoff round in which left out the funnies and cartoons words.Fumetto, Italian term refers to the "clouds" or speech balloons. Bande dessinée or "drawn strips" is the French term for this same kind of publications. Eroded Spanish term (mainland) competes in the field against local Spanish-speaking Latin terms; in the end, between these countries, the standard term is cartoon.For its own style, product of a cultural tradition, manga (Japanese term used for the same kind of publications) appears to be the first generic division of consideration beyond the vicissitudes of language. However, the basic conditions of Japanese comics are the same as those of comics from around the world, with some differences of style and tradition.Finally, the term Comix (with that spelling) rather than a gender division involves an awareness of the phenomenon of comic strips and hence, a historical-temporal notion.