Defining things in comics

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What I observed from the Peanuts comics, cerca 1952, was that the characters that we know and love today are drastically different from the way they were originally in the 1950’s. In the 50’s the Peanuts gang were toddlers, instead of elementary school kids, playing with blocks and practically never leaving their home. Also visually the character designs are different. The characters have much larger heads than anticipated, probably to make them look more like toddlers, and their pupils increased in size as well. Another defining element that makes the Peanuts , the Peanuts is the first panel, which shows the title in the middle of the scene, but the characters interact like nothing is there and continue their action.

Tarzan is a comic that is one of a  kind, a comic that continued the previous storyline with the next issue, keeping the story consistent, for that time a consistent story each week was not as frequent as we see today. The stories do lack substance because he does the same thing in every issue, he saves a pretty lady and he fights the native tribe.

Krazy Kat usually starts out with one long continuous panel and the spacing is sporadic, but is mostly wide blank space. The illustrator makes a choice that most panel that he draws in unencumbered by lines holding in an image. The creator also numbers the panels to easily instruct the reader of the panel setup. Krazy Kat also was in primarily black and white, and has a unique scribbly style.

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