At least I now have an answer for comics...

So I guess comics were the first forms of storyboarding in a sort of sad way. I think there was a time when I questioned about the use of comics being visually the storyteller to the film now. I wondered how long comics were in existence. I know that ever since printing, there were ads or comical pictures used to display current events. I guess I never knew how much comics and film balanced each other? if that's the correct word.

The Before Mickey article (I don't see an option for underline) goes into details about lightning sketches. I think we've seen some of these types of drawings before, if not it was present in the article about McCay and his work with Nemo and Slumberland. McCay's animation was set up first as bet on whether he could make his characters move and you do see him draw them. It's a strange way thing to call these lightning drawings animations. I don't see them as a type of animation but more of a layering process. Perhaps I don't understand fully how it would be considered animation if the canvas is blank to color.

Lotte Reiniger, the first cutout animator. It was interesting to read about her imaginative ideas and concerns about the 'modern' world then. She loved the ideas of fairytales just as much as I do. Her placement of homosexually and views were quite simple matter of fact in her description and she was very open. It kind of makes me sad that she didn't get more publicity, at least in America. The movie sounds brilliant, like many of the first animations do.