Before binge-watching, there were movie serials like The Perils of Pauline (1914). Each episode ended with Pauline tied to railroad tracks or dangling from a cliff—a literal cliffhanger. This is the direct DNA of the comic strip’s "continued next week." Cinema didn't invent suspense; it adapted the tira (the strip) into the capítulo (the chapter).
We are not at the end of the story. We are not even at the end of a chapter. We are somewhere in the middle of a long, chaotic, beautiful, ridiculous comic strip that began with cave paintings and will continue until the last screen flickers off. Before binge-watching, there were movie serials like The
The question is not whether you are reading the historieta . The question is: We are not at the end of the story
Shows like The Flintstones (1960) directly mimicked sitcoms but were drawn. The Simpsons (1989) became the longest-running historieta in history—a comic strip that moves, speaks, and satirizes the very media ecosystem it inhabits. Matt Groening’s Life in Hell (a print comic) evolved into The Simpsons (TV), then a movie, then memes. That is the historieta of popular media functioning perfectly: a single IP migrating across time and form. The question is not whether you are reading the historieta