We have seen that many early animated films, particularly in the US, were based on print comics. Why do you think that is? What was there about comics that would make them an appropriate subject for film?
Comics are literally 2d animated stories. It is a form of visual storytelling where you have a narrative, images depicting movement and emotion, suspense, a mimic of motion drawn out between slides. Also around this time there were already famous comic characters getting publicized so it was easy to use those characters in animation to test the waters. I made it easier for animators to gain attention and then money for more animations. Comics were so over exaggerated already, with facial expressions and character design. The over the top visuals made it almost seen right to bring these to life. People already had these comics as a constant in their life so the source material was already wanted and there why not grow on it.
