A European Comic is a comic book that generally is comprised of a graphic novel, with album length stories (ca. 60 pages). European comics can be contrasted with superherogenre and manga, which are produced and read in English speaking countries and Japan, respectively. The European genre goes from the humoristic adventure vain (in its early form) to more adult subjects.
History
The history of the European Comic coincides with the Franco-Belgian comics history. It started in Belgium in the 1920s, followed quickly by France. Nowadays, many other European countries have their own comics industry, like The Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Spain and Italy, amongst others.
Although a European country, the British production is not considered as a "European", since they have a specific production closer to the American genre.
Europeancomics is a generalized terms for comics produced in Continental Europe.
Though technically European, British comics are for historical and cultural reasons considered separate from Europeancomics due to the existance of a well-established domestic market and traditions which more closely resemble the development of American comics.
Franco-Belgian comics are historicall among the dominant scenes of Europeancomics.
Comics (or, less common, sequential art) is a form of visual art consisting of images which are commonly combined with text, often in the form of speech balloons or image captions.
Whilst almost all comics art is in some sense abbreviated, and also whilst every artist who has produced comics work brings their own individual approach to bear, some broader art styles have been identified.
In the United States the term "comics" is sometimes used to describe the page of a newspaper upon which comic strips are found, and through this usage has also grown to be used as a definition for comic strips.
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