Comics are becoming more and more popular. With increasing readers, comics have evolved from newspaper funnies to today's mass production of entertainment. Comics, in many ways, follow up on similar forms, which makes comics its very own form of art. Considering comics as a form of art, it is to be believed that comics are a modern-day art movement, due to their popularity, style, and elements that are contained in comics. Art that forms into a story has originated as long as the beginning of time. Drawings on caves that represent the action of a hunt, or a history of what had happened relates to the art form known as comics. Ancient Egypt has drawings in pyramids and buildings representing action and story as comics do.
             Today, comics represent humor, horror, action, and fantasy. Comics today contain characters from the unreal to characters such as political characters to actors. Comic in some ways has no limit to what it can contain. It has become a multi-media production. Not only do comics uses ink, paints, and pencils only, comics have evolved as technology has allowed them to be.
             Comics known today started out from magazines. Bradford W. Wright, author of Comic Book Nation states "The earliest comic books derived directly from comic strips, but in many respect, they owed more to pulp magazines." The humor comics started it all. In Wright's text, it was to be believed that "titles like Famous Funnies, Funnies on Parade, and the Funnies was the first comic books" dating back to 1890(Wright 2). Comics' purpose back then was to entertain. Using wording bubbles, readers can easily follow through with the funnies. The funnies were little short boxes of art, which follow each other sequentially, to tell a story, state out a point, or basically just to entertain.
             Horror, action, and fantasy comics started when the popular comic hero Superman came out. " It was 1934 that two high-school students and aspiring comic strip writers n...