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Non-fiction comics
Non-fiction comics, also known as graphic non-fiction, is non-fiction in the comics medium, embracing a variety of formats from comic strips to trade paperbacks.
Non-fiction comics evolved from classic literary journalism and the relatively younger comics medium. Before photography came to be, and before technological innovations could allow for it to be applied the way it is in the news today, many events in newspaper publications were illustrated. As comics grew as a medium in the late 1800s and early 1900s, it allowed for a new form of non-fiction story telling. Speaking to the strengths of this medium Josh Neufeld, author of A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, said, "I think it is one of the most personal and intimate ways to tell stories. Readers feel like they are having an actual conversation with characters, rather than reading quotes in a newspaper or seeing talking heads on T.V."
Traditionally, comic strips have long offered factual material in this category, notably Ripley's Believe It or Not!, John Hix's Strange as It Seems, Ralph Graczak's Our Own Oddities, King Features' Heroes of American History, Gordon Johnston's It Happened in Canada, and others. Dick's Adventures in Dreamland was another attempt by King Features to teach history with comics. Clayton Knight created a strip about aviators, The Hall of Fame of the Air (1935–40), later collected in a book. Texas History Movies, which began on October 5, 1926, in The Dallas Morning News, received praise from educators, as did America's Best Buy: The Louisiana Purchase, a 1953 daily strip in the New Orleans States, distributed nationally by the Register and Tribune Syndicate, which also handled Will Eisner's The Spirit supplement for Sunday newspapers.
Contemporary nonfiction comic strips include Biographic, Health Capsules, The K Chronicles, and You Can with Beakman and Jax.
Non-fiction was published in numerous comic books in the 1940s, notably Picture News (Lafayette Street Corporation), True Comics (Parents' Magazine Press), Heroic Comics (Eastern Color Printing), It Really Happened and Real Life Comics (both Standard/Better/Nedor). A notable scripter of this material for 1940s comic books was novelist Patricia Highsmith, who wrote for Real Fact Comics (DC Comics), Real Heroes (also Parents' Magazine Press), and True Comics.
A notable nonfiction comic from the 1950s was the 1957 one-shot Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, a 16-page comic book about Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery bus boycott, published and distributed by the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Ever since the 1950s, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has produced free, educational comic books. The stories feature fictional characters but contain lessons about financial literacy and the work of the Fed. One title, Once Upon a Dime, has been produced a number of times in different iterations, updating its content as society has evolved.
Fitzgerald Publishing Co. produced the Golden Legacy line of educational black history comic books from 1966 to 1976. Golden Legacy produced biographies of such notable figures as Harriet Tubman, Crispus Attucks, Benjamin Banneker, Matthew Henson, Alexandre Dumas, Frederick Douglass, Robert Smalls, Joseph Cinqué, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr., Alexander Pushkin, Lewis Howard Latimer, and Granville Woods. Golden Legacy was the brainchild of African American accountant Bertram Fitzgerald, who also wrote seven of the volumes. Many of the other contributors to the Golden Legacy series were also black, including Joan Bacchus and Tom Feelings. Other notable contributors included Don Perlin and Tony Tallarico.
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Non-fiction comics
Non-fiction comics, also known as graphic non-fiction, is non-fiction in the comics medium, embracing a variety of formats from comic strips to trade paperbacks.
Non-fiction comics evolved from classic literary journalism and the relatively younger comics medium. Before photography came to be, and before technological innovations could allow for it to be applied the way it is in the news today, many events in newspaper publications were illustrated. As comics grew as a medium in the late 1800s and early 1900s, it allowed for a new form of non-fiction story telling. Speaking to the strengths of this medium Josh Neufeld, author of A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, said, "I think it is one of the most personal and intimate ways to tell stories. Readers feel like they are having an actual conversation with characters, rather than reading quotes in a newspaper or seeing talking heads on T.V."
Traditionally, comic strips have long offered factual material in this category, notably Ripley's Believe It or Not!, John Hix's Strange as It Seems, Ralph Graczak's Our Own Oddities, King Features' Heroes of American History, Gordon Johnston's It Happened in Canada, and others. Dick's Adventures in Dreamland was another attempt by King Features to teach history with comics. Clayton Knight created a strip about aviators, The Hall of Fame of the Air (1935–40), later collected in a book. Texas History Movies, which began on October 5, 1926, in The Dallas Morning News, received praise from educators, as did America's Best Buy: The Louisiana Purchase, a 1953 daily strip in the New Orleans States, distributed nationally by the Register and Tribune Syndicate, which also handled Will Eisner's The Spirit supplement for Sunday newspapers.
Contemporary nonfiction comic strips include Biographic, Health Capsules, The K Chronicles, and You Can with Beakman and Jax.
Non-fiction was published in numerous comic books in the 1940s, notably Picture News (Lafayette Street Corporation), True Comics (Parents' Magazine Press), Heroic Comics (Eastern Color Printing), It Really Happened and Real Life Comics (both Standard/Better/Nedor). A notable scripter of this material for 1940s comic books was novelist Patricia Highsmith, who wrote for Real Fact Comics (DC Comics), Real Heroes (also Parents' Magazine Press), and True Comics.
A notable nonfiction comic from the 1950s was the 1957 one-shot Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, a 16-page comic book about Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery bus boycott, published and distributed by the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Ever since the 1950s, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has produced free, educational comic books. The stories feature fictional characters but contain lessons about financial literacy and the work of the Fed. One title, Once Upon a Dime, has been produced a number of times in different iterations, updating its content as society has evolved.
Fitzgerald Publishing Co. produced the Golden Legacy line of educational black history comic books from 1966 to 1976. Golden Legacy produced biographies of such notable figures as Harriet Tubman, Crispus Attucks, Benjamin Banneker, Matthew Henson, Alexandre Dumas, Frederick Douglass, Robert Smalls, Joseph Cinqué, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr., Alexander Pushkin, Lewis Howard Latimer, and Granville Woods. Golden Legacy was the brainchild of African American accountant Bertram Fitzgerald, who also wrote seven of the volumes. Many of the other contributors to the Golden Legacy series were also black, including Joan Bacchus and Tom Feelings. Other notable contributors included Don Perlin and Tony Tallarico.