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The two biggest publishers for comic books are Marvel and DC comics

Between the two companies, they cover almost 70% of the retail market share

Why do we read comic books?

• Entertainment
• To escape into an alternate reality 
• Gain further information about characters from films
• Personal identity
• Some people collect them
• Visually stimulating, like the artists
• Nostalgia

Comic formats

• Print
• Pdf
• Jpeg
• Apps

Comic book- The comic book is a softcover magazine of sequential artwork (a number of pictures in order) and words that when used together tell a story. The cover is usually a glossy paper with the interior of a higher quality paper with the consistency of newspaper. The spine is usually held together by staples. Comic books today cover a variety of subjects. There are horror, fantasy, sci-fi, crime, real life, and many other subjects that comic books cover. The subject most comic books have become known for is superheroes and heightened realities.

Comic strip- This is what you would find in a newspaper such as Garfield, or Dilbert and what was originally referred to with the term 'comic'.

Graphic novel- This thicker, and glue-bound book. This format has been used by some publishers to help distinguish the content from comics with more mature subjects and content matter. They tend to include narratives and cover a wide range of genres. Lately, the graphic novel has seen a large amount of success by collecting a comic series, allowing purchasers to read a whole comic story in one sitting. 

Web comics- this term is being used to describe both comic strips and comic books that can be found on the Internet. Many are smaller attempts by people who just want to find a creative outlet, but others have turned their web comics into successful industries such as Player Vs player, penny arcade and ctrl, alt, and del.