A Concise History Of Shows And Funny Pictures

 

All of us all prefer to laugh and a smile and no quicker way to stimulate joy than taking a look at cartoons and humorous pictures.

 

For as long as man has been able to color and draw, funny pictures and cartoons have recently been depicted on caves surfaces, canvas, paper, floors, ceiling and even skin!

 

A large number of award-winning artists have attracted and painted comical and funny pictures not to mention such legendary historical figures as Raphael and Leonardo De Vinci in whose comical works are really considered.

 

In the 15th-century the printing press was popularised by Johann Gutenberg someday later it was this invention gave rise to the ability to reproduce satirical images for wide-spread distribution to the people. Inside the 16th-century hilarious cartoon strips gave political figures the ability to reach cartoon pictures  people to further their cause and get important votes. They were also a powerful tool of propaganda and get together policy.

 

Contrary to the famous Queen Victoria stating, "We are not amused" the Victorians were actually very easily titillated and throughout the 19th 100 years funny pictures were portrayed on Victorian postcards in various formats from slapstick scenes to the more innuendo orientated themes

 

In the 1890's the new technology of Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope heralded the age of animation screening rudimentary discharge technology. Many people of the time saw the enormous potential this story invention would provide.

 

The name Disney is associated with animation and in 1928 we saw the birth of Mickey Mouse button who is still today one of the most iconic and recognised emblems in the world. Inside the 1950's the Unified States also saw another company emerge, Hanna-Barbera Shows which went on to create many classic cartoons, Scooby Doo, The Flintstones plus the Yogi Bear show to mention simply a few.

 

Technology comes a long way and from early cartoons in comics and funny pictures on postcards and papers we are now cared for to high spec digital animation with films like Toy Story and Acquiring Nemo.

 

Probably the reason cartoons and animation will not ever die is because our imaginations are the only limits just for this media with the scope for ideas and possibilities beyond the constraints of real life being truly endless.