幫作英文作文(15分)

Comics as an artform established itself in the late 19th and early 20th century, alongside thesimilar forms of film and animation. The three forms share certain conventions,most noticeably the mixing of words and pictures, and all three owe parts of theirconventions to the technological leaps made through the industrial revolution.Though newspapers and magazines first established and popularized comics in thelate 1890s, narrative illustration has existed for many centuries.Early precursorsof comic as they are known today include Trajan's Column and the work ofWilliam Hogarth. Rome's Trajan's Column, dedicated in 113 AD, is an earlysurviving example of a narrative told through sequential pictures, whileEgyptian hieroglyphs, Greek friezes, medieval tapestries such as the BayeuxTapestry and illustrated manuscripts also combine sequential images and wordsto tell a story. Versions of the Bible relying primarily on images rather thantext were widely distributed in Europe inorder to bring the teachings of Christianity to the illiterate. In medievalpaintings, many sequential scenes of the same story appear simultaneously inthe same painting.However, theseworks did not travel to the reader; it took the invention of modern printingtechniques to bring the form to a wide audience and become a mass medium.