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BITS ‘N’ PIECES Superhero movies are very popular nowadays, but superheroes didn’t debut in movies. They actually got their start in the pages of the earliest comic books.Ever wondered which is the oldest comic book in the world? The...
What is a graphic novel? Merriam-Webster defines it as “a story that is presented in comic-strip format and published as a book.” Some early historical examples of what we now know as graphic novels certainly followed this model. Swiss cartoonist Rodolphe Topffer’s 1837 comics masterpiece, Histoire de M. Vieux Bois, for instance, became America’s first graphic novel when it was reprinted as The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck in 1841. German painter/illustrator Wilhelm Busch’s Max und Moritz, published in 1865, is a brilliant children’s story with comic illustrations and a graphi...
In 1827, Switzerland's Rudlophe Topffer created a comic strip and continued on to publish seven graphic novels. In 1837, Rudolphe Töpffer published “The
