I love collecting comic books.  My rarest one is from Japan in the 1700's.
I don't know much about comics. What is your favorite?
I like anything by Arthur Adams the most.  He is a great artist.  I collect The Uncanny X-Men that he did the art for.
How long has comics been around?
The first ones were made in Japan in the 18th century and they made their way to Europe in the 1830's, and finally the US in the 1930's.
Are there still new comics being made even today?
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
, when he bought Marvel Comics' "Micronauts" #1, which was illustrated by Michael Golden, the first artist Adams noticed significantly. He relates:
I was collecting comic books from the mid-70s, and then I discovered Michael Golden working on "Micronauts". And I don't know exactly what it is about the very first issue of "Micronauts". Something about it just blew me away. That was the book that made me say, 'Yeah, this is what I'm going to do for