The word cartoon is used to talk about books that use images accompanied by texts to convey ideas. Comics are a sequence of panels (picture frames) that can contain text balloons (with the characters' interventions), special effect signs (containing onomatopoeia, such as screams, sighs, among others) and cartouches (signs with information about the situation).
Today, the word "comic" is common; however, at the beginning of the 19th century, these illustrated books did not exist. It was in the 1830s when cartoons began to be used to tell stories, with Rodolph Töpffer's "The Adventures of Tintin" being one of the first comic strips to hit the market.
In the 20th century, this new trend spread to other areas of Europe, to the United States and to Japan. Already in the twelfth century there was a kind of comic strip, but it was in the twentieth century that the modern comic emerged.
Photo obtained from Death Note, Chapter 1, by Tsugumi Obha
With this proliferation of graphic stories, the need arose to use specialized terminology to name them. Thus, they were called bandes dessinées in French, manga in Japanese, fumetti in Italian, quadrinhos in Portuguese, and comic or comic books in English.
In Spanish, various terms are used: comics (mainly in Spain), comics (especially in Latin America), "little monkey" (in Mexico) and comics (barbarism).
The term cartoon
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Photo recovered from Doctor Who, The Ninth Doctor Collected Comics
The term "comic" derives from the word "story." This last term is polysemic, which means that it has several meanings. Some of the meanings of the word "story" that appear in a dictionary in relation to the term comic are:
1-Narration of an event, the development of an issue, an experience, etc.
2-Story of something past.
3-Fictional story or fable.
4-Story, tangles.
The word "history" comes from the Greek "historein", which means "ask", "inquire", "question". In turn, the Greek term histoiren derives from "oistor" which means "quality of knowing."
In this sense, etymologically, the term means "to know or know the truth about the object of interest through questions."
Although the original meaning of the word has mutated over time, the sense of intrigue generated by "the object of interest" remains: history.
It is observed that the word "story" was added the suffix particle -eta, which means "small", giving as origin the term "comic".
The Sandman - More Than Rubies page by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenber
At first, "comic" was used denotatively, this means that it was used to refer to narratives that, in effect, were short, such as anecdotes.
However, with the passage of time, the term began to be used to designate graphic stories that did not necessarily have to be short.
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