Illustrative Styles

To create a story board I need to research comic strips, books, cartoons and graphic novels.

Comic strips tend to take the format of boxes in a line like so...

Although some comic strips are not all in the strict format for example...

In the 20th century comics thrived in the US, France, Belgium and Japan.

In the European comic history in the 1830's Rodolphe Topffer created cartoon strips. Here is an image of Histoire de Monsieur Cryptogame.

His strips became popular after Herge's success in the 1920's with The Adventures of Tintin. Here is an extract form Tintin in the land of soviets.

Comics today can be found in newspapers, books, magazines, on the internet, advertisements and posters.

Graphic novels are basically comic books. Libraries and bookstores separate comic book and graphic novels by whether the story's are continuous or not, if they are then they are stored as comic books and if not then graphic novels. The novels became more common around in the 20th century along with comic albums.