Comics, film, and animation have long been intwined in their creations. Both film and animation owe much to the comic strip like set up of storyboard, which both looks and acts like the comics it mimics. But what hadn't occured to me until reading this is that much of the film and animated comedy we see in early film history is directly influenced by the comic strip serials that ran before film had even found its base.
The example given in the reading is the hose gag from the Lumiere brother's short. Sitting next to it is comic strip by Cristophe showing the exact same gag from at least six years before the brothers filmed their bit. It makes me wonder how many other classic jokes got their start in comics before making the jump to silver screen.
Still, this reading shows that comics have had a long lasting relationship with film that goes back to it's basic beginnings. It's strange that it took until the past decade for the relationship with mature, serious comics to really take off into anything that is beyond campy and hokey.
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As you said Comics film , and animation are all linked to another. It's great to observe too how if one of these links is effected, how it effects other parts of the chain. For example politics in comics reflecting to films and animation. One specific example would be the Journalistic yellow boy and Homer Simpson.
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