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Comics is a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically takes the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information. There is no consensus among theorists and historians on a definition of comics; some emphasize the combination of images and text, some sequentiality or other image relations, and others historical aspects such as mass reproduction or the use of recurring characters. Cartooning and other forms of illustration are the most common means of image-making in comics. Photo comics are a form that uses photographic images. Common forms include comic strips, editorial and gag cartoons, and comic books. Since the late 20th century, bound volumes such as graphic novels and comic albums have become increasingly common, along with webcomics.

The English term comics is used as a singular noun when it refers to the medium itself (e.g. "Comics is a visual art form."), but as a plural when referring to works collectively (e.g. "Comics are popular reading material."). (Full article...)

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The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) centers on a series of American superhero films produced by Marvel Studios based on characters that appear in publications by Marvel Comics. The MCU is the shared universe in which all of the films are set. The films have been in production since 2007, and in that time, Marvel Studios has produced and released 37 films, with at least eight more in various stages of development. It is the highest-grossing film franchise of all time, having grossed over $32.4 billion at the global box office. This includes Avengers: Endgame, which became the highest-grossing film of all time at the time of its release.

The films are written and directed by various individuals and feature large, often ensemble, casts. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has produced every film in the franchise, while other Marvel Studios executives have also produced some films alongside Feige, including the studio's former CEO Avi Arad for the first two releases. Other individuals have also produced select MCU films, including Gale Anne Hurd for The Incredible Hulk; Amy Pascal for the Spider-Man films; Lauren Shuler Donner, Ryan Reynolds, and Shawn Levy for Deadpool & Wolverine; and Anthony and Joe Russo for Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars.

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Anniversaries for June 6

1920: birth of Sandro Angiolini, Italian comics author known for Isabella
1922: birth of Maurice Maréchal, Belgian comics artist, best known for the series Prudence Petitpas
1926: birth of Tom K. Ryan, American cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Tumbleweeds
1927: birth of Peter Spier, Dutch-American illustrator and writer, creator of Sophie for Spirou
1932: launch of Napoleon and Uncle Elby, American newspaper comic strip created by Clifford McBride
1958: birth of Arlen Schumer, American graphic artist and comic book historian
1958: birth of Greg Adams, American comic book artist best known as an inker for Marvel comics
1959: first appearance of The Three Bears, British comic strip by Leo Baxendale which still appears in The Beano
1962: birth of Tom McCraw, American comic book artist, writer, and creator, best known as a colorist for DC Comics
1970: first issue of Cor!!, British comic book which ran until 1974
1971: birth of Michael Alan Nelson, American comic book writer
1977: death of Joe Musial, American cartoonist who drew The Katzenjammer Kids
1977: launch of Howard the Duck as a comic strip, by Steve Gerber and Gene Colan
1992: death of Martin Goodman, American comics publisher best known for Timely Comics
1997: death of Manny Stallman, American comics artist, known for his work during the Golden Age of Comics
2004: death of Kate Worley, American comic book writer known for Omaha the Cat Dancer
2012: death of Jean-René Le Moing, French artist, one of the co-creators of Pilote

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The following are images from various comics-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1During panels at comic book conventions, the audience is sometimes invited to line up and ask questions using a dedicated microphone. (from Comic book convention)
Image 2Comic-Con crowd inside the second floor of the convention center in 2011 waiting for the exhibition hall to open (from San Diego Comic-Con)
Image 3The San Diego Convention Center during Comic-Con in 2013 (from San Diego Comic-Con)
Image 4A page by Rodolphe Töpffer, whose work is considered influential in shaping the comics form. (from History of comics)
Image 5Hokusai Manga (early 19th century) (from History of manga)
Image 6A Fallout Cosplayer photographed at a Comic Con in a Fallout Themed area (from Comic book convention)
Image 7A statue of The Rose of Versailles. This is a statue of Oscar and André at the Takarazuka Grand Theater in Takarazuka, Hyōgo, which is the musical of the work. (from History of manga)
Image 8Cover of Illustrated Chips in 1896 featuring the first appearance of the long-running comic strip of the tramps Weary Willie and Tired Tim. (from British comics)
Image 9Convention crowd outside of Golden Hall in 1982 (from San Diego Comic-Con)
Image 10Comic Con crowds in 2011 as seen from a helicopter (from San Diego Comic-Con)
Image 11Image of bathers from the Hokusai manga (from History of manga)
Image 12Japanese wood block illustration from 19th century (from History of manga)
Image 13Bryan Cranston & Aaron Paul at the 2013 Comic-Con International, with Cranston holding his realistic Walter White mask. (from San Diego Comic-Con)
Image 14BD artist Mœbius (2008), who achieved international renown through Métal Hurlant (from Bande dessinée)
Image 15Phoenix Fan Fusion's 2017 convention in Phoenix (from Comic book convention)
Image 16The French comic Les Pieds Nickelés (1954 book cover): an early 20th-century forerunner of the modern Franco-Belgian comic (from Bande dessinée)
Image 17Cover to 27 December 1884 edition of Ally Sloper's Half Holiday. (from British comics)
Image 18Chōjū-giga (12th century), traditionally attributed to a monk-artist Kakuyū (Toba Sōjo) (from History of manga)
Image 19Close Hergé collaborator and magazine contributor Bob de Moor (from Bande dessinée)
Image 20Sequential depictions on Trajan's Column in Rome, Italy (from History of comics)

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... that the 2003 series Trouble frequently appears on lists of the worst or most controversial Spider-Man storylines?
... that a rights dispute meant that two different actors played Quicksilver in two competing film franchises at the same time?
... that Maystorm, a character from Ultimate X-Men, was initially created for a variant cover for the comic X-Men?
... that Tina Leung dressed as her comic book alter ego when accepting an award for the House of Slay?
... that the 2003 graphic novel The Life Eaters, presenting an occult-driven, hypothetical Axis victory in World War II, has been discussed in the context of its portrayal of The Holocaust?
... that comic book artist Barry Windsor-Smith wrote, drew, inked, and lettered every page of his graphic novel Monsters by himself?
... that a 1948 U.S. Supreme Court decision helped to protect comic books from government regulation and censorship?
... that pages of Lewis Hancox's graphic novel were displayed in The Cartoon Museum of London?

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Whiz Comics #2 (Feb. 1940), the first appearance of Captain Marvel. Cover art by C. C. Beck.

Credit: Fawcett Comics

Captain Marvel is a fictional comic book superhero, originally published by Fawcett Comics and later by DC Comics. Created in 1939 by artist C. C. Beck and writer Bill Parker, the character first appeared in Whiz Comics #2 (February 1940). With a premise that taps adolescent fantasy, Captain Marvel is the alter ego of Billy Batson, a youth who works as a radio news reporter and was chosen to be a champion of good by the wizard Shazam.

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...that the first issue of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic comic book had pre-orders exceeding 100,000 copies, making it one of the most successful comics of 2012?

...that xkcd creator Randall Munroe recently finished a self-updating webcomic strip that spanned 3,099 frames over 123 days?

...that A-Force, the upcoming ongoing comic book series to be published by Marvel Comics, will feature Marvel's first all-female team of Avengers?

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The comics medium is a very specialized area of the Arts, home to many rare and talented blooms and flowering imaginations and it breaks my heart to see so many of our best and brightest bowing down to the same market pressures which drive lowest-common-denominator blockbuster movies and television cop shows. Let's see if we can call time on this trend by demanding and creating big, wild comics which stretch our imaginations. Let's make living breathing, sprawling adventures filled with mind-blowing images of things unseen on Earth. Let's make artefacts that are not faux-games or movies but something other, something so rare and strange it might as well be a window into another universe because that's what it is.

— Grant Morrison

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