History of Comics (3 pts.)

 Ever since I was a child, I only really understood comics on a base level. So getting to read a detailed history of it written as well as visually was something that I felt was going to be interesting going into this class and this book. Though I don't often like to read through textbooks, this specific "history book" is a lot more interesting when combined with small drawings that make learning the history much more engaging and fun. The same applies to certain gags and caricatures, and names for certain techniques to make learning these principles educating and entertaining. 

I enjoyed looking at the legalities of comics, mostly because I'd like to make my own comics and characters, and would like to see how the process of legalizing them would work. Showing each of the different companies and their properties really put things into perspective, how important it is to copyright characters.

I found it really interesting looking at those old proto-comics, just thinking about how they were just photos with word bubbles placed over them. It led me to ask myself, why did they start in this way? Before that discovery, in my mind, I assumed they always started as small little drawings. I remember back in Freshman Year, in my History of Illustration class, when I first heard about about the Yellow Kid.