History of Comics and Graphic Novels
It may seem like comics have been around forever, but that’s not the case. The first comic strip to achieve significant success in the United States was Mutt and Jeff. It premiered in 1907. The classic Blondie, by Chic Young didn’t debut until 1930. Peanuts, by Charles Schulz, didn’t premiere until 1950. Superman was the first of the … Keep Reading → superhero comics when the man of steel arrived in 1938. Batman, The Green Lantern, and Captain America would soon follow. The age of the superhero had officially begun. The two main publishers, DC and Marvel will fight it out for years. Spiderman didn’t come onto the scene until 1962. A few years later the medium would evolve, with graphic novels becoming popular. Early works include The Silver Surfer, by Jack Kirby and the legendary Stan Lee, which was released in 1978. Over the next 10 years the works of Frank Miller, Alan Moore, and Art Spiegelman would start to define the graphic novel as a separate and respected medium.
