Comic book | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 03/10/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_book


00:01:32 1 Structure
00:02:27 2 American comic books
00:05:13 2.1 Underground comic books
00:06:22 2.2 Alternative comics
00:08:12 2.3 Graphic novels
00:09:12 2.4 Digital comics
00:09:20 2.5 Market size
00:09:42 2.6 Comic book collecting
00:13:45 2.7 Advertisements
00:14:17 2.8 History of Race in Comic Books
00:20:28 3 Asian comics
00:20:36 3.1 Japanese Manga and Dōjinshi
00:21:00 3.2 Korean manhwa
00:21:41 3.3 Webtoons
00:22:20 3.4 Chinese manhua
00:22:29 4 European comics
00:22:38 4.1 Franco-Belgian comics
00:24:18 4.2 British comics
00:28:41 4.3 Spanish comics
00:30:29 4.4 Italian comics
00:31:39 4.5 Czech comics
00:31:56 5 Distribution
00:32:19 5.1 Digital distribution
00:33:03 6 Comic collections in libraries
00:33:22 7 Guinness World Record
00:34:27 8 See also



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A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and written narrative, usually, dialog contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. Although comics has some origins in 18th century Japan, comic books were first popularized in the United States and the United Kingdom during the 1930s. The first modern comic book, Famous Funnies, was released in the U.S. in 1933 and was a reprinting of earlier newspaper humor comic strips, which had established many of the story-telling devices used in comics. The term comic book derives from American comic books once being a compilation of comic strips of a humorous tone; however, this practice was replaced by featuring stories of all genres, usually not humorous in tone.
The largest comic book market is Japan. By 1995, the manga market in Japan was valued at ¥586.4 billion ($6–7 billion), with annual sales of 1.9 billion manga books/magazines in Japan (equivalent to 15 issues per person). The comic book market in the United States and Canada was valued at $1.09 billion in 2016. As of 2017, the largest comic book publisher in the United States is manga distributor Viz Media, followed by DC Comics and Marvel Comics. Another major comic book market is France, where Franco-Belgian comics and Japanese manga each represent 40% of the market, followed by American comics at 10% market share.