Strung together, these pages are a megacomic of their own, documenting the evolution of an art form in constant flux. We conclude on what we think is a high note, with a few recent comics that have already made an impact and portend a richer and more diverse future. All are interesting on their own and integral parts of the tomes from which they were plucked. Some are significant because the artwork told a story in ways no one had thought to do before, and ended up being emulated - or, in some cases, outright aped. Some pages are notable for their written content - game-changing first appearances, brilliant narrative innovations, and so on. And, this being comics, we had to get a little nitpicky: We’re only dealing with comics first published by North American publishing houses, and we’re not including newspaper comic strips, webcomics, or reprints thereof. These are also not the only 100 pages that have shaped comic books, but each, in its own way, has had a profound impact on the form as we know it. We didn’t necessarily pick the 100 best pages - there are many amazing specimens we didn’t include because they didn’t have a significant influence on the craft of comics. In some cases, there were multiple pages that could be used to represent a particular innovation we’ve noted those instances. Our criteria were as follows: A page had to have either changed the way creators approach making comics, or it had to expertly distill a change that had just begun. To assemble our list of 100, we assembled a brain trust of comics professionals, critics, historians, and journalists. When comics have moved in new directions, the pivot points come in a page. In the best pages, one is torn between staring endlessly at what’s in front of you or excitedly turning to the next one to see where the story is going. If there are words, they become elements of the image itself, thanks to the carefully chosen economy of the writer and the thoughtful graphic design of the letterer. It is where multiple images can allow your eye to play around in time and space simultaneously, or where a single, full-page image can instantly sear itself into your brain. We chose to focus on individual pages rather than complete works, single panels, or specific narrative moments because the page is the fundamental unit of a comic book. We have set out to trace the evolution of American comics by looking at 100 pages that altered the course of the field’s history. Printed images - and the comic book medium’s unique presentation of them - are at the heart of this feature. From floppy single issues of superhero sagas to hefty graphic novels, harrowing comic-book memoirs to YA fare about queer adventurers, readers can tap into a dizzying array of what the great cartoonist Will Eisner famously termed “sequential art.” And, as evidenced by the sheer number of adaptations in film, television, and even on the Broadway stage, the rest of the entertainment industry has grown wise to what fans have long known: There’s a special alchemy that comes when you tell a story with pictures. Yet today, the medium is flourishing in ways its ancestors could never have imagined. Cheaply printed and barely edited, those pamphlets were not what a critic at the time would have called high art. When the first comics arrived on newsstands in the early 1930s, they were a cynical attempt to put old wine in new bottles by reprinting popular newspaper comic strips. Rather, it took a steady progression over the course of more than 75 years for the form to fully understand, and then harness, its powers. No radioactive spider bite, atomic explosion, or shadowy experiment granted the medium the sort of ability that would have allowed it to arrive on early-20th-century drugstore racks as glossy, fully formed vehicles for sophisticated entertainment. On the third page you mark the following values: 6.8 centimeters and 10.1 centimeters.The origin story of comic books isn’t flashy. Here you mark the following values: 7.1 centimeter and 9.6 centimeter Now go to the next page (the second page). If done right, you now have marked the first page and there's a gap of 1.2 centimeters between the marks. The first two values you need to mark according to the pattern are: 7.7 centimeters and 8.9 centimeters. Make sure the beginning of the ruler is on the left side of the book. Now place your ruler on the book like in the third image. It has to stay in this position during the process of marking the folds. Now turn the book a quarter, so your hand ends up on the right of the book and the page numbers (in this case) end up in the right upper corner. Now pick up the book like normal when you would read it (Like in the first image of this step) The patter i use is in centimeters, so please get a ruler that displays centimeters. For this heart pattern we need to mark and fold only 40 sheets of paper.