Comics research

I researched comic called "The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck" which is considered to be first comic book it was published 1837. It was forty page book each page had several pictures with accompanying text underneath.

It was created by Rudolf Topffer from Switzerland.

 This comic started a whole new way of story telling which is realy focused on visual representation of a story.
The artwork is simple (black and white). Comic shows how people were dressing at the time comic was made. I wasn't been able to find much info about this comic but from the looks of it i think that commic takes place in middle ages and its influenced by comic like caricatures in newspapers, cards and books. Here is an example of such drawing.

I think comics had a realy positive impact on people of that time becouse it had biger apeal than books and illiteracy of people of that time were high so comics surved as a good tool for teaching people to read.

sources: Wikipedia and Google images

Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author. Born on December 1 1935. Started his career at the age of 15, he wrote jokes for a local news paper later on moved on to write jokes for talk shows. 
Woody's theoretical directorial debut was in "Whats up, Tiger Lilly?" but his real directorial debut was in "Take the Money and Run" After a start of his carrer as a director he started acting and would star or even play a major role in most of his films. Due to this he was placed in a list of directors who would regulary star in theirs movies. List contains directors and actors such as Charles Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock.
His list of movies are dominated by comedies and in alot of them he is playing neurotic character and he plays it well. Because of that it is thought that he is a bit neurotic but in the interwiev for Time he denied that. 
In his later movies he tried to transition from comedy into a bit more sereous genres with a bit of dark humour but he still is best known for his romantic comedies and looking at todays romantic comedies its doubtfull that Woody Allens films had any influence on them.


 sources: wikipedia and interviews