Re: Sagas and Literature

From: markmohrfield <markmohrfield_at_...>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 13:22:50 -0000

• In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, "Stewart Stansfield"
  >
  > For future reference, 99% of what I post has no intention
  > to 'seriousness' in the slightest. > ["Warlord" -- *not* the Mike
  Grell one -- was a British war comic
  > that ran from the mid-70s to the mid-80s, much in the vain
  > of "Commando" and with its ilk the dominant source of our tolerant
  > and Europhilic society]
  >
  > :)
  >
  > Stu.
  

FRom wikipedia:
"The original method of printing was block printing, pressing sheets of paper into individually carved wooden blocks (xylography). It is believed that block printing originated in China and the earliest known printed text, the Diamond Sutra (a Buddhist scripture), was printed in China in 868 A.D. The technique was also known in Europe, where it was mostly used to print Bibles. Because of the difficulties inherent in carving massive quantities of minute text for every block, and given the levels of peasant illiteracy at the time, texts such as the "Pauper's Bibles" emphasized illustrations and used words sparsely. As a new block had to be carved for each page, printing different books was an incredibly time consuming activity."

Maybe comic books aren't quite as farfetched an idea as we've been thinking.

                                                    
                                                      Mark Mohrfield