n the 20th century, no artistic medium in North America with so much potential for creative expression has had a more turbulent history plagued with less respect than comic books. Through animated montages, readings and interviews, this film guides us through the history of the medium from the late 1930s and 1940s with the first explosion of popularity with the superheroes created by great talents like Jack Kirby and hitting its first artistic zenith with Will Eisner's "Spirit". It then shifts to the post war comics world with the rising popularity of crime and horror comics, especially those published by EC Comics under the editorshiop of William B. Gaines until it came crashing down the rise of censorship with the imposition of the Comics Code. In its wake of the devastation of the medium's creative freedom, we also explore EC's defiant survival with the creation of the singular "Mad Magazine" by Harvey Kurtzman. We then move to the resurgence of the superheroes in the late 1950's and 1960's typified with the rise of the dramatically innovative Marvel Comics edited by Stan Lee. Still more important is the rise of the the gleefully uninhibited underground comics created by eccentric talents like Robert Crumb and Dan O'Neill. These leads to profiles of creaters like Harvey Pekar who take the medium into new directions of expression. In the late 1970s and '80s we see the rise of alternative comics with such bold talents like Jaime Hernández for "Love and Rockets, Sue Coe for How to Commit Suicide in South Africa and especially for Art Spiegelman for his searing Pulitizer Prize winning Holocaust account, Maus. Finally, we learn of the medium's superhero mythos' revitalizing moment with the creation of Frank Miller's ferocious min-series "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns". Taken together, the film makes its arguement that the medium is far more than the stereotype of juvenile trash but rather it is an artform with a wild history and an exciting future.

时代背景是十九世纪末的土耳其，年轻的希腊男孩在康士坦丁堡为富商辛勤工作，但生活却充满了难堪与迫害。当他知道美国这块梦幻中的乐土之后，便千里迢迢移民美国追寻梦想。

荣誉：克拉科夫国际电影节铜龙奖 　　导演点评：这原本是大阪世博会时（译注：1970年），为住友化学工业展馆制作的影片。本片在世博会上是在三面银幕上放映的，而这里收录的作品则是对其进行重组后完成的。

This Czech drama is the first film version of Kafka's unfinished novel. The film has a theatrical feel as it follows protagonist Karel Rosmann from Europe to America where stays with his Uncle Jacob, an industrialist. Karel has many experiences there that leave him beginning to feel paranoid; especially after he becomes victim to the sexually forward daughter of a business associate of his father. In disgrace he leaves his uncle's and takes up with Topic, an alcoholic hobo, and a barmaid, Klara. Topic pushes Karel into a fight and Karel, believing he's killed him goes into hiding where he is protected by Green, a nasty old man, and Mack, a punk. His two protectors are literally the death of him.

本片将一群不拘一格的艺术家、评论家和学者带到了英国郊外，来了解英国人是如何通过艺术来描绘本国的美丽风光的，探究为何英国田园画能到达到如今的崇高地位和影响力。从查尔斯五世时期的佛兰德斯人到数字时代大卫霍克尼的iPad，英国田园风景画将英国的光辉历史显露无疑。电影制作人尼克罗格，历史学家丹斯诺，小说家威尔赛尔富等名人都参与到本片的拍摄中。

本片讲述青年热血漫画家陈唤，坚持己见，创作出一部反战和平题材的热血动作燃漫。在陈唤所创作的漫画中，主人公汪树（谢孟伟饰）化身反战使者，他为了实现战乱地区的和平，在与敌对势力抢夺“模块”的过程中，多次奋不顾身的深入险境，直面死亡的威胁，上演生死燃战。将现实与漫画的内容相结合，将杀戮和战争，嗜血与黑暗刻画的淋漓尽致。战争是可怕的，只有守望和平，世界才会美好。

本片讲述青年热血漫画家陈唤，坚持己见，创作出一部反战和平题材的热血动作燃漫。在陈唤所创作的漫画中，主人公汪树（谢孟伟饰）化身反战使者，他为了实现战乱地区的和平，在与敌对势力抢夺“模块”的过程中，多次奋不顾身的深入险境，直面死亡的威胁，上演生死燃战。将现实与漫画的内容相结合，将杀戮和战争，嗜血与黑暗刻画的淋漓尽致。战争是可怕的，只有守望和平，世界才会美好。

本片描述了日本浮世绘大师葛饰北斋多姿多彩的一生。 　　贫民出身的铁藏（绪形拳 饰）少年时成为磨镜师中岛伊势（フランキー堺 饰）的继子，后因迷恋绘…

《漫画少女》是一部以在漫画编辑部工作的女孩子们为中心展开的充满欢闹的日常喜剧，描写了这群没有漫画编辑经验的女孩子们从零做起，策划创刊漫画杂志并为之奋战的故事，作品中也反映了一些现实中漫画业界的真实情况。

Korean webtoon writers Lee Mal-nyeon and Ju Ho-min play a picture quiz with street citizens.