The Thing # 12 ( Feb. 1954 ), Ditko's first published comic-book cover

According to John Canemaker, in Paper Dreams: The Art and Artists of Disney Storyboards ( 1999, Hyperion Press ), the first storyboards at Disney evolved from comic-book like " story sketches " created in the 1920s to illustrate concepts for animated cartoon short subjects such as Plane Crazy and Steamboat Willie, and within a few years the idea spread to other studios.

After spending a year attempting to break in as a magazine / newspaper illustrator, Cole began drawing for the studio of the Harry " A " Chesler, one of the first comic-book " packagers " who supplied outsourced stories to publishers entering the new medium.

The first nudge towards modern comic books happened in 1934 when Hungarian Paul Winckler ( who had previously been distributing comics to the monthly magazines via his Opera Mundi bureau ) made a deal with King Features Syndicate to create the Journal de Mickey, a weekly 8-page early " comic-book ".

The firm, first known as Educational Comics, was founded by Max Gaines, former editor of the comic-book company All-American Publications.

* The comic-book hero Superman, when Jerome " Jerry " Siegel first created him, was originally a villain modeled on Nietzsche's idea ( see " The Reign of the Super-Man ").

For publisher Donning / Starblaze, Foglio illustrated the MythAdventures series of fantasy novels by Robert Lynn Asprin, and later adapted the first book, Another Fine Myth, into an eight-issue comic-book series from WaRP Graphics.

He returned to the United States in 1998, attending his first comic-book convention, Comic-Con International.

He sold his first comic-book story, a romance tale, to Toby Press, which went out of business before it could be published.

The comic-book incarnation of Cybertron is described in the first issue as being the size of Saturn, which would logically mean it possessed incredibly dense gravity, and yet it did not, possibly as a result of its hollow structure, honeycombed as it is by tunnels.

She was the first female comic-book character with her own title, with her 1937 ( in Great Britain, 1938 in the United States ) premiere, preceding Wonder Woman # 1 ( cover-dated Dec. 1941 ).

His first comic-book appearance was as an adversary for Doctor Strange in the pages of Marvel Premiere # 3-9 ( July 1972-July 1973 ).

Eclipse published one of the first original graphic novels, and the first to be sold through the new " direct market " of comic-book stories, Sabre: Slow Fade of an Endangered Species by Don McGregor and Paul Gulacy.

Published in August 1978 — two months before Will Eisner's more famous, graphic short-story collection A Contract with God — it was the first graphic novel to be sold in the new " direct market " of comic-book stores.

Hot Tips from Top Comics Creators ( Fictioneer Books, 1994 ) is a 120-page collection of more 1, 000 pieces of advice on the comic-book industry from the first ten years of Comics Interview, plus capsule biographies of 262 comics professionals.

However, in the first years of the 21st century, comic book publishers began releasing trade paperbacks of collected story arcs, often within a few months of those stories ' publication in comic-book form ( and in some cases, within the same month that the final issue was originally released ).

After first introducing what he called " Monster Comics " in Monster World, Warren expanded in 1964 with horror-comics stories in the sister magazines Creepy and Eerie – black-and-white publications in a standard magazine format, rather than comic-book size, and selling for 35 cents as opposed to the standard comic-book price of 12 cents.

Wyatt Wingfoot is a fictional, comic-book supporting character in the Marvel Comics universe, who first appeared in Fantastic Four # 50 ( May 1966 ).

Ragman is a fictional DC Comics mystic vigilante and superhero who first appeared in the short-lived comic-book series named after him.

The first inspiration, Eisner said, came after he'd attended his first comic-book convention in the mid-1970s, and met that generation's fans and creators.

The first graphic novel to be sold in the new " direct market " of comic-book stores, the book, priced at a then-considerable $ 6. 00, helped prove the new format's viability by going into a February 1979 second printing.

After he had finished the first two volumes of his Lincoln, Sandburg went to work assembling a book of songs out of hobo and childhood days and from the memory of songs others had taught him.

The work as it stands is not the entire book that Malraux wrote at that time -- it is only the first section of a three-part novel called La Lutte avec l'Ange ; ;

The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.

He worked in oil for years before beginning his work in watercolor, and his first public recognition and early honors, including his election to the Academy, were for his essays in the heavier medium.

At first each child should do a kick-up by himself so that the teacher can determine those ready to work alone, and those who need help.

Her first day at work she was puzzled by an entry in the doctor's notes on an emergency case.

In our work the best procedure for removing substances causing nonspecific staining in order to obtain specific conjugates was to pass the conjugates through a DEAE-cellulose column and in some cases to absorb the first and second milliliter fractions with sweet clover tissue powder.

The word `` binomial '' means `` of two names '' or `` of two terms '', and both usages apply in our work: the first to the names of the two outcomes of a binomial trial, and the second to the terms P and Af that represent the probabilities of `` success '' and `` failure ''.

The first was a list of fourteen manufacturing companies located in the state of Washington which were personally known to the research team to be active in defense work.

In their vases were embodied the basic aesthetic and logical characteristics of Greek civilization, at first hesitantly in Protogeometric work, and then more confidently in the initial stages of the Geometric style.

If one wishes to discuss a literary figure who uses folklore in his work, the first thing he must realize is that the literary figure is probably part of this ignorant American public.

To be sure, in tool-and-die work and in the building trades, the first job must be often on an apprentice basis, but two years of half-time vocational training enables the young man thus to anticipate one year of apprentice status.

The Rev. R. L. Brandt, national secretary of the home missions department, stressed the need for the first two years' work.

And there she had her first showing of tapestry work.

A new work on the program was Nikolai Lopatnikoff's `` Festival Overture '', receiving its first New York hearing.

Choreographed by Mr. Nagrin, the work filled the second half of a program that also offered the first New York showing of Miss Tamiris' `` Once Upon A Time '' as well as her `` Women's Song '' and Mr. Nagrin's `` Indeterminate Figure ''.

Alvin Ailey and Carmen De Lavallade appeared in the first New York performance of Mr. Ailey's `` Roots Of The Blues '', a work given its premiere three weeks ago at the Boston Arts Festival.

He had known when he first helped her to meet the right people and work with them that she did not intend to marry him.

Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra recorded the work for RCA Victor, including one of the first stereo recordings of the music.

As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.

His British colleague Hugh McGregor Ross helped to popularize this work — according to Bemer, " so much so that the code that was to become ASCII was first called the Bemer-Ross Code in Europe ".

As with the acetic acid reactions, both definitions work for the first example, where water is the solvent and hydronium ion is formed.

The first three of these prizes are awarded for eminence in physical science, in chemistry and in medical science or physiology ; the fourth is for literary work " in an ideal direction " and the fifth prize is to be given to the person or society that renders the greatest service to the cause of international fraternity, in the suppression or reduction of standing armies, or in the establishment or furtherance of peace congresses.