The first modern comic book was invented in the United States in 1933. Pretty amazing!
Oh really? Where are their roots traced back to? Japan or something?
I don't know, but Japanese Manga does have the same key elements like panels and balloons with text.
yea they really do span across a few cultures? What came before comic books? Newspaper strips?
in the U.S. in 1933 and was a reprinting of earlier newspaper humor comic strips, which had established many of the story-telling devices used in comics. The term "comic book" derives from American comic books once being a compilation of comic strips of a humorous tone; however, this practice was replaced by featuring stories of all genres, usually not humorous in tone.
The largest comic book market is Japan. By 1995, the manga market in Japan was valued at (), with annual sales of 1.9billion
was writing, like Sun Ra or somebody might do – like "A Love Supreme", you know, where they just mumble that in succession at the end of that Coltrane record? I kinda wanted to do something like that but maybe with an influence from The Byrds, you know. And I was really proud of that; I really thought that was amazing, so I love listening to it." 
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