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. The size and arrangement of panels contribute to narrative pacing. Cartooning and other forms of illustration are the most common image-making means in comics; fumetti 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, while online webcomics have proliferated in the 21st century.
The history of comics has followed different paths in different cultures. Scholars have posited a pre-history as far back as the Lascaux cave paintings. By the mid-20th century, comics flourished, particularly in the United States, western Europe (especially France and Belgium), and Japan. The history of European comics is often traced to Rodolphe Töpffer's cartoon strips of the 1830s, and became popular following the success in the 1930s of strips and books such as The Adventures of Tintin. American comics emerged as a mass medium in the early 20th century with the advent of newspaper comic strips; magazine-style comic books followed in the 1930s, in which the superhero genre became prominent after Superman appeared in 1938. Histories of Japanese comics and cartooning (manga) propose origins as early as the 12th century. Modern comic strips emerged in Japan in the early 20th century, and the output of comics magazines and books rapidly expanded in the post-World War II era (1945–) with the popularity of cartoonists such as Osamu Tezuka. Comics has had a lowbrow reputation for much of its history, but towards the end of the 20th century began to find greater acceptance with the public and academics.
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."). Though the term derives from the humorous (comic) work that predominated in early American newspaper comic strips, it has become standard for non-humorous works too. The alternate spelling comix – coined by the underground comix movement – is sometimes used to address these ambiguities. In English, it is common to refer to the comics of different cultures by the terms used in their original languages, such as manga for Japanese comics, or bandes dessinées (B.D.) for French-language comics. There is no consensus amongst 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. The increasing cross-pollination of concepts from different comics cultures and eras has further made definition difficult.
Comic is Superman/Batman #80
Superman explains that virtual particles are always spontaneous generated
And that he's using his heat vision to (excite) the vacuum in order to accelerate the process. He's generating more virtual particles
So my question is, how much energy or heat did...
In Action Comics #867, Superman survived the explosion of a sun
What I would like to know is, how much energy was he exposed to?
- I know there's the Inverse square law to consider
- And I know because of that, he did not get hit by the entire energy of that explosion because his surface...
It might work!
We've had several threads lately -- showing double suns, zig-zig stars and what not. Most of them are not presented as illusions or misinterpretations which is almost always what they are. Folks want answers.
So - how about this approach:
http://xkcd.com/1633/
Homework Statement
Sheldon moves a box of comic books to stuarts comic book store by attaching a rope to the box and pulling with a force of 90 N at an angle of 30. The box of comic books has a mass of 20 kg and the coefficient of kinetic friction between the bottom of the box and the sidewalk...
Time magazine reviews the new book called What if?
From the author of XKCD comics now on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IYUYF4A/?tag=pfamazon01-20
I just found this weird observation in Ragestache Comics. Anybody care to explain to me why one can Retain the troll face even after sometime ?? (Eg. I could Retain the figure in my mind for more than 4.5 mins ).http://cdn.ragestache.com/2012/1/23/ragestache.com_30398_1329012006.jpg BTW, could...
I've just received vol. 1 and vol. 2 of TV (Century) 21 (comic strips) reprints.
CONTENTS
Volume 1:
Fireball - The Astran Assassination
Thunderbirds - Chain Reaction
Stingray - The haunting of Station 17
Captain Scarlet - The Football King
Lady Penelope - The Luveniam Affair
T'birds - The...
comics can be educational... somewhat...
So I was going through xkcd and found this comic strip:
http://xkcd.com/135/
I can do 1, but i have no clue how to do 2.
any takers?
thanks.
and yes. i know I'm a nerd. :P it's all good.
http://www.nearingzero.net/quantum/screenres/quantum003.jpg
http://www.nearingzero.net/quantum/screenres/quantum004.jpg
:confused: What are those comics mean?
How is it associated with the vocabulary mentioned?