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Introduction

Little Sammy Sneeze comic strip,
published 1904-1906
by Winsor McCay

Comics is a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically takes the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information. There is no consensus among theorists and historians on a definition of comics; some emphasize the combination of images and text, some sequentiality or other image relations, and others historical aspects such as mass reproduction or the use of recurring characters. Cartooning and other forms of illustration are the most common image-making means in comics; Photo comics is a form that uses photographic images. Common forms include comic strips, editorial and gag cartoons, and comic books. Since the late 20th century, bound volumes such as graphic novels, comic albums, and tankōbon have become increasingly common, along with webcomics as well as scientific/medical comics.

The English term comics is used as a singular noun when it refers to the medium itself (e.g. "Comics is a visual art form."), but becomes plural when referring to works collectively (e.g. "Comics are popular reading material."). (Full article...)

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The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is an American media franchise and shared fictional universe that is centered on a series of superhero films, independently produced by Marvel Studios and based on characters that appear in publications by Marvel Comics. The franchise has expanded to include comic books, short films, and television series. The shared universe, much like the original Marvel Universe in comic books, was established by crossing over common plot elements, settings, cast, and characters. Clark Gregg has appeared the most in the franchise, portraying Phil Coulson, a character original to the MCU. The first film released in the MCU was Iron Man (2008), which began the first phase of films, culminating in Marvel's The Avengers (2012). "Phase Two" began with Iron Man 3 (2013), and concluded with Ant-Man (2015). The universe began to expand with the release of the first official tie-in comics in 2010, and saw further expansion with the Marvel One-Shots direct-to-video short films in 2011 and the television series Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the 2013–14 television season from Marvel Television. The MCU is currently in "Phase Four" and has multiple films and television projects in various stages of development. The franchise ranks as the highest-grossing film franchise both in the United States and worldwide, and has inspired other film studios with comic book character film rights to attempt to create similar shared universes.

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Anniversaries for May 1

1919: birth of Win Mortimer, Canadian comics artist best known for his work on Superman
1940: birth of Cal Sobrepeña, Filipino comics artist known for Lovelife Komiks
1940: birth of Alex Nino, Filipino comics artist best known for his work on horror and science-fiction/fantasy titles
1943: birth of Carlos Trillo, Argentine comic book writer who worked with Horacio Altuna and Jordi Bernet
1956: birth of Phil Foglio, American cartoonist and comic book artist known for humorous science fiction and fantasy art
1956: birth of Tim Sale, American comics artist known for his collaborations with writer Jeph Loeb.
1963: birth of Christopher Moeller, American writer and painter, specializing in fully painted graphic novels.
1971: debut of Faceache, British comic strip created by Ken Reid which ran until 1988
1972: first issue of L'Écho des savanes, French comics magazine started by Claire Bretécher, Gotlib and Mandryka
1977: birth of David Hopkins, American comic book writer known for Karma Incorporated
1986: first issue of Barbara Slate's Angel Love, published by DC Comics until 1987.
1997: death of Max Mayeu, Belgian writer and artist, better known under the pseudonym “Sirius”
2001: launch of Captain RibMan, American webcomic by John Sprengelmeyer and Rich Davis
2005: start of Concerned, American webcomic by Christopher C. Livingston
2006: first appearance of M×0, Japanese comedy manga created by Yasuhiro Kanō
2007: death of Tom Artis, American comic book artist for DC Comics, Fleetway/Quality, and Marvel Comics throughout the 1980s and early 1990s

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The following are images from various comics-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1The French comic Les Pieds Nickelés (1954 book cover): an early 20th-century forerunner of the modern Franco-Belgian comic (from Bande dessinée)
Image 2Convention crowd outside of Golden Hall in 1982 (from San Diego Comic-Con)
Image 3A page by Rodolphe Töpffer, whose work is considered influential in shaping the comics form. (from History of comics)
Image 4The San Diego Convention Center during Comic-Con in 2013 (from San Diego Comic-Con)
Image 5During panels at comic book conventions, the audience is sometimes invited to line up and ask questions using a dedicated microphone. (from Comic book convention)
Image 6Image of bathers from the Hokusai manga (from History of manga)
Image 7Japanese wood block illustration from 19th century (from History of manga)
Image 8Comic Con crowds in 2011 as seen from a helicopter (from San Diego Comic-Con)
Image 9Comic-Con crowd inside the second floor of the convention center in 2011 waiting for the exhibition hall to open (from San Diego Comic-Con)
Image 10Cover to 27 December 1884 edition of Ally Sloper's Half Holiday. (from British comics)
Image 11Cover of Illustrated Chips in 1896 featuring the first appearance of the long-running comic strip of the tramps Weary Willie and Tired Tim. (from British comics)
Image 12Hokusai Manga (early 19th century) (from History of manga)
Image 13A Fallout Cosplayer photographed at a Comic Con in a Fallout Themed area (from Comic book convention)
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Comics artist Mœbius (2008), who achieved international renown through Métal Hurlant
(from Bande dessinée)
Image 15Sequential depictions on Trajan's Column in Rome, Italy (from History of comics)
Image 16Phoenix Fan Fusion's 2017 convention in Phoenix, Arizona (from Comic book convention)
Image 17Chōjū-giga (12th century), traditionally attributed to a monk-artist Kakuyū (Toba Sōjo) (from History of manga)
Image 18Close Hergé collaborator and magazine contributor Bob de Moor (from Bande dessinée)

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... that Piecemeal, who appeared in The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga, was considered one of the strangest characters to appear in a Marvel video game?
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... that the original release of Jason Shiga's comic Demon included a four-page issue, a sixty-page issue, and an issue in which all the panels were black?
... that comic book creator Brandon Dayton chose medieval Russia as the setting for his minicomic Green Monk after watching Andrei Tarkovsky's film Andrei Rublev?
... that the Buddhist themes of David Bowie's 1967 composition "Karma Man" were compared to the Marvel Comics character Doctor Strange?
... that a 1944 serial film was the first film appearance of Captain America and the first film appearance of any Marvel Comics character?
... that the writer of the 2022 comic book miniseries Poison Ivy, starring the eponymous Batman villain, described it as a "love story" that features "plant-based body horror"?
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Dave Gibbons, artist and designer of the Watchmen comic book series.

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...that while Al Jaffee (pictured) created the comics character Ziggy Pig, it was Stan Lee who named him?

...that after 25 years of aging in real time, John Constantine is getting younger?

...that The Punisher can be distinguished from other beat 'em up games by its frequent use of firearms?

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A lot of the people who read comics think of comics as a culture—or as a subculture; something with its own private codes that mark its members as belonging, and everybody else as not belonging.

— Douglas Wolk, 2006

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