We consider generally Rodolphe Töpffer as the inventor of the comic strip. In 1827, to distract his pupils, this teacher at a boarding school, born in Switzerland, began to illustrate short, comic stories and distribute them. Several years later, in Great Britain, the series Ally Sloper's Half Holiday appeared, closely resembling today's [Read more]

The first pulp was produced from cloth, cotton, or hemp rags. It was only in 1850 that wood began to be massively used, when it was discovered that it could be finely grated to produce the cellulose necessary for paper production. 

For drawings, Japanese and Chinese artists favor pure lines, even often refraining from adding color. On the other hand, Western artists are recognized for their use of gradations and shadow effects.

A drawing is a work generally made on a removable support using a medium, whether colored or not, such as pencils, feathers, pastels, crayons, or charcoal.

Requiring relatively little means, it's often used as the basis for more complex artistic creations in the fields of architecture, design, painting, sculpture, and industrial [Read more]

The world of illustration is extremely vast, because it spans a multitude of media, movements, and possibilities. Whether it's engraving, drawing, painting or photography, an illustration generally accompanies a text. Its history is therefore intimately connected with that of printing.

Illustrated works were often made with flat tints [Read more]

Available in a wide range of colors, textures, and formats, paper is today omnipresent in the everyday lives of a good number of people, but is equally widely used in field of art.

Paper can serve as a support for painting or drawing, be employed to make origami, constitute the basis for collage or papier-mâché works, or [Read more]