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This is the Wikipedia portal for comics. Comics have a long tradition, the aspects of the form becoming formalised alongside the invention of the printing press, and the status of comics as an art form has recently gained fresh focus. The iconic representations of comics require no translation, giving the comic strip and cartoon a universal power of communication. Comics are also artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and in turn, affect them. Featured article
Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons. Originally published by DC Comics as a monthly limited series from 1986 to 1987, it was later republished as a trade paperback. It was one of the first superhero comics to present itself as serious literature, and it also popularized the "graphic novel" format. Watchmen is the only graphic novel (besides Frank Miller's 300)to win a Hugo Award, and is also the only graphic novel to appear on Time magazine's 2005 list of "the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present."
Watchmen is set in 1985, in an alternative history United States where costumed adventurers are real and the country is edging closer to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. It tells the story of a group of past and present superheroes and the events surrounding the mysterious murder of one of their own. In Watchmen, superheroes are depicted as real people who must confront ethical and personal issues, who have neuroses and failings, and who are largely lacking in superpowers. Watchmen's deconstruction of the conventional superhero archetype, combined with its innovative adaptation of cinematic techniques and heavy use of symbolism and multi-layered dialogue, has changed both comics and film.
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You are invited to participate in WikiProject Comics, a WikiProject dedicated to developing and improving articles about comics. Featured picture
Page of original art by Steve Ditko.
Steve Ditko, the original artist on Spider-man later self-published such titles as Mr. A.
(Click on image to enlarge)Anniversaries for November 22
- 1901: birth of Roy Crane, American comics artist and writer, creator of Wash Tubbs and Buz Sawyer
- 1923: birth of Paul Cuvelier, Belgian comics artist best known for Corentin
- 1940: birth of Roy Thomas, American comics author, editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, introduced the comic version of Conan the Barbarian
- 1969: birth of Marjane Satrapi, Iranian comics author and artist, best known for the award-winning Persepolis graphic novel
- 1989: death of C. C. Beck, American comic book artist, creator of Captain Marvel
- 1989: death of José Guadalupe Cruz, Mexican comics writer known for Santo, el enmascarado de plata
- 2000: start of Mushishi, ongoing Japanese manga created by Yuki Yoshiyama
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From Wikipedia's newest comics articles:
... that Jason Little won two Ignatz Awards in consecutive years for his graphic novel Shutterbug Follies?
... that colorist Josette Baujot, recently deceased, created the distinct color schemes of works in Hergé's Adventures of Tintin series?
... that Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy co-created a comic book series inspired by the lyrics of his band's music?
... that in Bryan Talbot's graphic novel Grandville, France won the Napoleonic Wars, invaded Britain and guillotined the British Royal Family?
... that Life on Another Planet, a graphic novel by Will Eisner, has been called by James Morrow, “a kind of science fictional Bonfire of the Vanities"?
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