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This is the exhibition "The Comic, art history invisible", included in Visual Arts Tour of Murcia which explains the origins, development and current state of the considered "ninth art".
The Councillor for Culture and Celebrations of the City of Lorca, Sandra Martinez, inaugurated this morning at the Garden Palace Ruano's exhibition "The Comic, art history invisible".
This is a sample included in Visual Arts Tour of Murcia which explains the history of the genre, its origins, evolution, development and current state based on a selection of original comic book covers from the year 1916 until today.
The exhibition included within the circuit of Visual Arts launched by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, ranging from the classic Marvel superheroes Batman, Superman and Spiderman, until the most recent cartoons or Mort and Phil Simpson.
The exhibition also includes various products such as comic books and reading adult collectible figurines.
Also shown are the first editions of old comic books and the first edition of the magazine "Thursday", and a selection of Spanish first published comics from the 70s.
It is recalled that the origins of the comic have been established in Egyptian hieroglyphics.
The need to narrate in the Roman monuments is evident, as in Column of Trajan.
The medieval churches are a Pauperorum Bible as they were aimed at those who could not read could follow a sequential speech Scripture.
That seems to be the keyword: sequential.
Scott McCloud titled So today the test is considered essential for the comic: Sequential Art, which addressed the mechanisms and history of the medium.
Narration by consecutive sequences or not an argument is reflected in drawings of recurrent definitions of an art, ninth, which since its inception in the nineteenth century has marked the lives of most of us, to a greater or lesser extent.
The starting point is usually given in The Yellow Kid by Richard Fenton Outcault great.
With it generated a process that led all American newspapers to publish their own comics, later sold to chains of newspapers from other countries.
In this sample we can see several examples of the pioneers of American comic, as the Latin American version of Mutt and Jeff, Bud Fisher's characters, who were called in Nicaragua and Elijah Benitin South published in newspapers after U.S. release.
The dazzling success resulted sagas that are now history, as in the case of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Annie, The Flintstones, also present in the sample, etc., but caused a step further: the birth of the comic supplements .
Generally a proprietary, getting real cause anxiety in American children, which generated a visual culture mode hitherto nonexistent.
The American Society of moralistic Great Depression forced controls forced to carry labels that ensured modesty.
This same society in crisis saw the birth of the superhero as one way of escape to a reality too cruel to be understood by children: (first) Captain America, Batman and one of the largest, although this supposedly deadly: The Spirit, work of master Will Eisner.
The comic came in everyday life, in everyday life with the birth of the controversial term "graphic novel" brought superheroes to unknown dimensions, found life beyond Orion, accompanied the Underground to step elongated cat Fritz, and became universal.
In Europe pillars were built as robust as Tintin, Asterix or Mortadelo, generating millions of fantasies and not so young children.
Today is a solid industry that disseminates new cultural models, critical or simply entertainment.
The comic potential is so great that today cinema turns superhero with an unusual way of Tintin Wolverine, the Avengers this Superman and Hellboy, through our beloved Mort and Phil.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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