1929
1930s
Golden Age
1938 / 39
1940s
overseas
30 %
escapism
1950s
1960s
Silver Age
1970s
1978
graphic novel!
“I had finally settled on the term
‘graphic novel’ as an adequate
euphemism [for comic book], but
the class I teach is called
‘sequential art’ — and of course
that’s what it is — a sequence of
pictures arranged to tell a story.”
or
“Big comic book that needed a
bookmark”
Art Spiegelman
1980s