EN 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Chester Brown, Maple Leaf Publishing, Telling Stories
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Mid 19th century: book form, young adult audiences. Things that look like contemporary graphic novels much more than 100 years. It is written in book form: text and images in the same sections. At this time, there was debates if this was serious or not: no speech bubbles or plot bubbles which is very typical for the media but we see recognizable key structures. Late 19th century: we get this shift into newspapers. 20th century: the 20th century made an earlier in age target. There is a shift towards children as the primary audience of graphic novels. Serialized (related stories told over in serial form) magazines, children and youth audiences. Stand-alone comics that you can buy off yourself about superhero"s. American government created a board to formally eliminate comic books so that it doesn"t corrupt the youth. Huge anxieties around the popularity and: no narrative progression.