The comics medium includes newspaper comic strips such as Dennis the Menace and comic books such as Spider Man Scholars around the world agree that comics are a uniquely American art form The first commercially successful comic strip was Hogan s Alley a c

The reading and the lecture are both about " comics" and their origin. The author of the passage states that comics are a uniuely American art form. The lecturer challanges the claims made by the author. He is of the opinion that comics doesn't solely belong to American art. To begin with, the author argues that Hogan's Alley was the first commercially successful comic strip in 1890s. The article mentions that Hogan's Alley and it's characters marked the commencement of comics and was American in each and every aspect. This specific argument is challanged by the lecturer. He claims that there were many popular comic strips which were made especially in Britaina and Swizerland of Europe even before Hogan's Alley in early 1790s. Additionally, he says that the charecters of Hogan's Alley and also it's publishers were immigrants from Europe. Secondly, the writer suggests that the first popular Action comic book was from America. In the article it is said that the Action Comic Series featuring Superman, the world's first superhero was also created in America in 1938. However, the lecturer rebuts this by mentioning that 16 years before the Superman series was released, there was a well-known action comic book called Adventures of Tinton released in 1932. He elaborated on this by bringing up the point that artist of the Superman was from Canada but not America. Finally, the author posits American comics have inspired many japanese and European art forms. Moreover, in the article it is stated that American Disney characters are more popular in Europe than ever. In contrast, the lecturer's position is that Japanese Manga and Europe's Smurfs and Asterix were of indigenous origin but not American-inspired. He notes that European disney characters are created by Europeans. In conclusion, although the reading and lecture are both about origin of comic strips and chatacters, the points made in the reading are effectively challanged by the lecture.