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Comic book Audience

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Pop Art

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Roy Lichenstien

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Inking

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Marvel Vs. DC Vs. Titan

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Comic Teams

Although comics can be created by large teams of people they are mostly created by partners who  work together to create a story and illustrations for the comic. While both people will often help the illustration process one person will be acknowledged as the writer and one as the artist.

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When Did Comics Start?

There are many dates forwarded for the date of the first comic, the first ever book with pictured depicting a story appeared in 1837 while the first weekly comic strips appeared in newspapers in 1896, these strips were accumulated and reprinted into the first comic book in 1928, however the golden age of comics started in 1938 with the first appearance of Superman in Action Comics #1. Superman’s appearance in Action Comics #1 marks the introduction of the first ever super hero comics and marked the beginning of the golden age of comics that lasted until 1950.

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LA Confidential

Taking place in the early 50′s LA Confidential tells the story of three policemen and there motives and methods behind solving an unsolved murder in downtown Los Angeles.

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Mechanic

Jason Statham (Arthur Bishop) plays a assassin, and he may be the best in the business but when his friend (Harry) and mentor is murdered he takes his friends son under his wing and teachers him the trade. But Bishop is the best because of his code and Harry’s son doesn't have what is takes to be a contract killer.

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Jack Ryan

hidden behind the facade of his executive job, Jack Ryan works for the CIA and he has to work to stop (unbeknownst to his fiancee) a Russian plan of crashing the US stock economy by bombing wall street. 

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R.E.D

Bruce Willis plays a retired CIA operative and and after surviving a hit on his life assembles a team of retired CIA veterans to break into the CIA and uncover the conspiracy that threatens his life.

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Clear and Present Danger

After being promoted to deputy director of the CIA Harrison Ford’s character must try to unravel what happened between an influential businessman and a drug cartel, as he digs through layers of cover-up files he struggled to decipher allocation of blame.

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Conspiracy Theory

This 1997 thriller tells the story of a New York cabbie paranoid with conspiracy theories but after he is abducted by a put through a series of tests he comes to the realisation that the conspiracies are no theory and he asks for the help of government Lawyer who doesn't know if he is sane or not.  

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JFK

JFK was a 1991 movie that saw the combination of historical record with conspiracy theory in a thriller that brings to light some questions raised by John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

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Styles of Paneling

During the golden and silver age of comics it was common practise to have comics arranged in a grid format often with of 6 or 9 comic panels arranged with equidistant with clean white gutters separating them. As comics have evolved writers and artists have pushed the boundaries of there work. With new comics sprouting up in Europe and Japan they brought with then new techniques and ways of thinking.

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Text Boxes in Comics

text boxes - text boxes are narration providing commentary on the comic panel.

Speech Bubble - speech bubbles can be assigned traits that reflect there speaker, but are usually assigned a speaker by the context of the panel.

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