Comics: a 9th art

How did comics become an art? Long criticized and sometimes despised, comics have only recently been recognized as an art in their own right... Töpffer, the father of comics 1827: this is the date of the first comic strip, born from the pen of a Swiss writer and professor, Rodolphe Töpffer. The Three Births of Comics In Europe, then in the United States and Japan, it was in the 19th century that we began to broadcast stories in pictures. McCay in wonderland Comics first developed in the press. Meet its first genius: Winsor McCay! Tintin, Spirou and the others From the 1920s, Franco-Belgian comics invented a style and heroes, who remain true stars today. Franquin, the very lively comic strip Did you say André Franquin? A great cartoonist, to whom he brought all his science of movement? Yes that very one! The galaxy of superheroes Batman, Spider-Man and many others: with them, a new genre was born from the 1930s. Immerse yourself in the world of superheroes! Kirby, the superhero Creator of the X-Men, Iron Man, or the Hulk, Kirby renewed the genre of superheroes in the 1960s.