The comic strip

I found the most interesting thing about the sample of comic strips we looked at were no only diverse in style, format but also storytelling.  A lot of this beginning comics seemed to paving the way for later types of comics so to speak.  While Little Nemo and Gasoline Alley concentrated more on environment and atmosphere, using clean uniform panel combined with brilliant composition created a real sense of a world.  I feel like this might have laid it’s way for comics that are very world heavy and the idea of really using the panel composition in neat way. Meanwhile things like Krazy Kat seemed lay the way for messier odder stranger stuff later on.  Then later comics like Peanuts and Clavin and Hobbes  which started a more character based storytelling, things that are not sickly sweet or super wacky but are somewhere in between both of these seemed to have given way to more different, more sublet kinds of jokes and storytelling. I think a lot entrainment,  not just comics has to take a bow to these early strips as path builder to many many different kinds of visual storytelling .