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Science fiction comics began as early as the 1930s in US newspapers. They have since spread to many countries around the world, with the two largest publishers of this comic genre today arguably being the United States and Japan. ==History== The first science-fiction comic was the gag cartoon ''Mr. Skygack, from Mars'' by A.D. Condo, which debuted in newspapers in 1907. The first non-humorous science fiction comic strip was ''Buck Rogers'', based on a story published in Amazing Stories. It was quickly followed by others in the genre, notably ''Flash Gordon'', ''Brick Bradford'', and the British strip ''Dan Dare''. When comic books arrived on the scene, many of them featured science fiction. One notable title was ''Planet Comics''. Also, with the introduction of ''Superman'', the super-hero genre was born, which often included science fiction elements (Superman came from another planet). Today the superhero is considered a subgenre of science fiction. In the 1950s, EC Comics had great success and popularity publishing science fiction comics of increasing sophistication, but were almost driven out of business by the wave of anti-comics feeling stirred-up among parents and educators by Dr. Fredric Wertham's book ''Seduction of the Innocent''. In spite of opposition, science fiction in comics in the U.S. continued through the 1960s with stories for children and adolescents. It began to return to the adult market again in the late 60s with the wave of hippy underground comics. Japanese manga also featured science fiction elements early in the history of science fiction comics. In the 1950s, Osamu Tezuka's ''Astro Boy'' was one of the first major science fiction manga. In the next decades many other creators and works would follow, including Leiji Matsumoto (e.g. ''Galaxy Express 999''), Katsuhiro Otomo (e.g. ''Akira'') and Masamune Shirow (e.g. ''Appleseed'' and ''Ghost in the Shell''). In the UK, the publication of ''Eagle'' gave a platform for the launch of Dan Dare in 1950. Starting in the mid-sixties ''The Trigan Empire'' was featured in ''Look and Learn'' drawn by Don Lawrence, who would go on to create ''Storm''. In the 1970s, publications such as ''2000 AD'' featured a selection of regular stories either putting a science fiction spin on popular themes like sports and war and also introduced characters like Judge Dredd. Its success spawned a number of spin-offs an imitators like ''Tornado'', ''Starlord'' and ''Crisis'' none of which lasted more than a few years, with the earlier titles being merged back into ''2000 AD''. Other examples include the Polish comic ''Funky Koval''. The first French comics story with a science-fiction theme was ''Zig et Puce au XXIème Siècle'' (Zig & Puce In The 21st Century), first serialized in a French Sunday newspaper and then published as an album in 1935; this was one of the many adventures of the teenage characters Zig and Puce first created in 1925. The first serious (featuring non-juvenile characters) French science fiction comics story was ''Futuropolis'' serialized in the comics magazine ''Junior'' in 1937-1938; the pseudo-sequel ''Electropolis'' followed in 1940. When the Nazi occupation forces banned the import of Flash Gordon into France, ''Le Rayon U'' (The U Ray) was created as replacement in the magazine ''Bravo'' which had been running Flash Gordon. Other French science fiction comics which debuted in 1943 include ''Otomox'', featuring a powerful robot, serialized in ''Pic et Nic'' and ''L'Épervier Bleu'' (The Blue Hawk), serialized in ''Spirou'' magazine. The first French comics magazine exclusively featuring a science fiction hero was the relatively short-lived ''Radar'' of 1947. A far more longer lasting French comics magazine would be the small-format ''Meteor'', published from 1953 onwards till 1964; its main feature was ''Les Connquerants de l'espace'' (The Conquerors of Space). Subsequent notable French science fiction names the heroine ''Barbararella'', publications like ''Métal Hurlant'' and authors like Enki Bilal (e.g. The Nikopol Trilogy) and Moebius. With the advent of the Internet, a number of notable science fiction comics have been published primarily online. Among the earliest science fiction webcomic was ''Polymer City Chronicles'', which first appeared in 1994. Other notable comics include ''Schlock Mercenary'', and ''Starslip Crisis''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「science fiction comics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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