Comics

In 1827, Switzerland's Rudolphe Töpffer created a comic strip and continued on to publish seven graphic novels. In 1837, "The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck" was published by Rudolphe Töpffer and it is considered the earliest known comic book. In 1842, "The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck" became the first comic book published in the United States. "Obadiah Oldbuck" was a forty page book. Each page had several picture panels with accompanying text underneath.In 1859, German poet and artist, Wilhelm Bush published caricatures in the newspaper Fliegende Blätter. In 1865, he published a famous comic called "Max und Moritz".The 1895 "Yellow Kid" created by Richard Outcault has often been cited as being the first comic strip. The reason being is that Richard Outcault was the first artist to use the balloon, an outlined space on the page where what the characters spoke was written. However, comic strips and comic books were published before "Yellow Kid" debuted in the New York City newspaper "The World".Around 1900, the terms "comics" and "comic strip" came into common use in the United States. Where did the word come from? The strips of pictures being printed in magazines and newspapers at that time were all funny or comic. At first newspaper comic strips were called "the funnies" and later the term comics became more popular. Early American comic books were often collections of reprints of newspaper comic strips. Well that’s the best summary I can give on the history of Comics. Comics today are used for just about anything; promotions, political talks, and any other idea you can come up with. As a kid I always read the funny papers and later into comic books. Now I’m into Monga Japanese comics that are read backwards. I do believe comics will always be around for years to come.

Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard, of East Aurora, New York was a philosopher, soap salesman, entrepreneur, vaudville performer, bohemian, bigamist, horseman, humorist, printer, novelist, moralist, farmer, egotist, liar, plagiarist, avid supporter of big business, avid defender of individual rights, anti-intellectual, supporter of the arts, male chauvinist, pro-feminist, and college drop-out. from watching the video in class Hubbard was a strong bussiness man that had abillty to sale to anyone. From the video, I learn that he lived a double life cheating on his wife. His college life was short, he was to wild for Harvard.It seemed to be comfined to society image also. Soon later he form an arts and craft company across seas. All his products were made by hand. his idea was to make it for everyone to use. Soon went back to the states to start new again. Hubbard bought roycraft company and used the locals as workers. Message to Garcia was his best saler, it was the 3rd in the most book sold at that time. Hubbard was a true designer and saleman. Hand crafted became valued very much, in someway it is still valued today.

Graffiti

Graffiti has a long and proud history. The subculture surrounding graffiti has existed for several decades, and it's still going strong. The graffiti artists or "writers" as they prefer to call themselves are, skilled, passionate, and family of writers. Graffiti goes back to ancient Rome, and if drawn images count, then we could point to the first graf artists as caveman art. The style of urban graffiti that most people have seen and know about, the kind that uses spray cans, came from New York City in the late 1960s, and was born on the subway trains. Taki 183, who lived on 183rd street in Washington Heights, worked as a messenger who traveled all throughout the city. While he did so, he would use a marker and write his name wherever he went, at subway stations and also the insides and outsides of subway cars. Eventually, he became known all throughout the city as this mysterious figure. In 1971, he was interviewed for an article by the New York Times. Kids all over New York, realizing the fame and notoriety that could be gained from tagging their names on subway cars ,that traveled all over the city, naturally, more artist or taggers began to emulate or copy Taki 183. The goal was to have one's name in as many places as possible, and as kids competed against each other to get famous, the amount of graffiti on trains exploded. Criminals and vandals society called them. I think graffiti is an amazing medium. 90% of graffiti tags are art and the other 10 is gang related, but that 10% what makes it on the news and make bad names for every artist. People need to see artist no a gang member.