Why didn't they invent comics in ye olden times?
>>151770441No Gutenberg
>>151770441They used pictures and words to communicate ideas.Unless you mean commercial comics then why woukd they?
The printing press wasn't invented until 1440.And after that pictures were hard, prints had to be hand carved so it would be prohibitively expensive to do a weekly comic.
They did. Read this book if you take comics seriously.
>>151770485I refuse to take anything seriously.
>>151770494Don't be surprised, then, when life doesn't.
>>151770441needed the printing press, it came as a result of the printing press.
>>151770504*life doesn't take YOU seriously.
>>151770516Yes
>>151770441They did
>>151770533A lot of these cave paintings are pretty impressive but they aren't comics.Not all sequential art isare?comics.
>>151770441Lack of paper and printing press
>>151770577>Fucking cavemen drew better than Calarts graduates
>>151770577Fair enough but the first mass-produced comic was published in 1825. That's pretty old
>>151770441What do you call hieroglyphics? The Bayeux tapestry?
>>151770441They did but books were expensive. So it was mostly mass media like church windows and wall paintings.
>>151770646Sequential art, not comics.
>>151770441Seems kinda pointless when most people can’t even read. Would probably also get you branded as a heretic by the church for owning them
>>151770745>Would probably also get you branded as a heretic by the church for owning themRETARD ALERT
>>151770441Most comedy was theatrical through performers. Nobility had personal court jesters and everyone else had street performers through fairs and holidays. Visual hand drawn artwork was mainly religious and historical rather than used for comedic purposes at the time. There were some painters who would paint things entirely from the lens and intention of curating a fantasy but these were mainly done to portray and convey emotion and idealism rather than tell stories, mock, or make caricatures. Comics, and more specifically comic books as a medium is uniquely modern due to the higher literacy rates of modern people compared to antiquity. For most of human history, the capacity to both read and write was a skill only taught to spheres of society that required it as a function for their work. Writing in itself was also a much more time consuming activity due to the technological limitations of the past, as every single aspect of it was preformed by hand, you were limited in how long you could do it and where due to reliance on candle light after sundown, and ink needed time to dry.
>>151771040Also as these anons pointed out, >>151770480>>151770509mass producing comic books would be an expensive logistical impossibility before the invention of the printing press.
>>151770441For me, it's Reynard the Fox
>>151771344
>>151771344They had furries back then?
>>151771344It also had South Park tier levels of vulgar humor
>>151770441Bite him peper
>>151773526I like how the dogs are floating. They don't make dogs that cool anymore.
>>151771344Personally I like Knights vs Snails.
>>151773526>Alas parlamentarian I drew thee a mvtt owning cvckhol and I thee lion tamer
They at least had pictures with words of boomers bitching about kids these days even hundreds of years ago.
>>151773526King Charles on his cuck island.
>>151770441>no printing press = all books have to be done by hand or with the help of manual ink stubs/stamps>In relation to part one procuring the materials to make a book or art is expensive>In relation to 1 and 2 art skills and being an artist takes more time, needs apprenticeship, etc. Etc. >80% of the people you know probably can't read depending on where you're from.Sequential art existed of course, you can find them in motifs from as far back as the Bronze Age and the Caveman era but comic books as we know it i think are a result of all the cool communication developments we've made.
>>151772684No Reynard's more like Mickey Mouse or a Disney characterAlso these new captchas suck ass.
>>151771344For me it's Dieterich Von Bern, i like the idea of Theoderic The Great becoming a fire breathing knight.
>>151770441Get Treed fucker
>>151770441Would
>>151774336If the graffiti at Pompey taught me anything, people can be snaky assholes at times.
>>151770441They didn't have a comics board yet
>>151770577comic books as we know them are really a 1930s phenomenon that's gone through several iterations until the present day; but they have antecedents in tijuana bibles, penny dreadfuls and other cheap, mass-produced and rapidly-printed works going back into the 18th century; by the late 19th century you have works like Prehistoric Peeps telling entire stories in a single large image (and this tradition goes back to artists like Hogarth and works like Beer Street and Gin Lane over a century before, which despite looking like fairly grotesque still life works to us had a lot more information for their contemporary audiences to note; what Prehistoric Peeps does differently and well is that it's a single strand in an entirely fictionalised setting that ran for years); there were other titles collecting strips by the late 1890s, but as it was adapted to film as early as 1905, Prehistoric Peeps is perhaps the most influential long-termthese developments ran in parallel with what began as satirical images and became newspaper comics (Christ, what an asshole) over two centuriesbut even those 18th century precursors of comic books have their precedent in the marginalia of ancient manuscripts, which tell stories of the lives of their scribes that would otherwise be losttl;dr they did
