Comics
About this book
The Yellow Kid
–
Richard F. Outcault
Yellow ink
Speech balloons
Hogan’s Alley
Social commentary
The Katzenjammer Kids
–
Rudolph Dirks
No contrition
The Captain and the Kids
Der Captain
Der twins
Little Nemo
–
Winsor McCay
Only a dream
Mischievous
Dream
Waking up
Little
Mutt & Jeff
–
Bud Fisher
Mismatched tinhorns
Archetype
Breaking the fourth wall
Are they gay?
Toonerville Folks
–
Fontaine Fox
The situation
Repertory company
The Skipper
Flem Proddy
Mickey (Himself) Roonie a.k.a. McGuire
Punctuation
Krazy Kat
–
George Herriman
Love
Officer Bull Pupp
Only playing
Groaners
Left to the imagination
Temporal art
Bringing Up Father
–
George McManus
Situational slapstick
Maggie
The jig’s up
The art of McManus
Unquenchable resourcefulness
Gasoline Alley
–
Frank King
Comic strip history
Comic strip time
From the life
Family soap
Popeye
–
E. C. Segar
A one-eyed sailor
Common sailor, superhero
Existential acceptance
Popeye’s pipe
Eugene the Jeep
Barney Google
–
Billy DeBeck
Barney and Snuffy
The crimes of Snuffy Smith
The Secret & Mysterious Orders
Hillbilly humor
Little Orphan Annie
–
Harold Gray
Coping during the Depression
Much on her own
Sandy
Protected by magic
Benign capitalism
The Inventions of Professor Lucifer G. Butts, A.K.
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Rube Goldberg
Self-operating napkin
“It’s the Little Things that Matter”
Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, the Professor
Surrealist devices
The Adventures of Tintin
–
Hergé
Style
Controversial ideology
Becoming a hero
Blondie
–
Chic Young
Blondie Boopadoop
Comical difficulties
Dagwood sandwich
Dick Tracy
–
Chester Gould
Tracy the untouchable
Two-way wrist radio
Names
Action and reactions
Alley Oop
–
V. T. Hamlin
Allez, oop!
Ooola
Foozy
Dinny
Time travellers
Flash Gordon
–
Alex Raymond, Don Moore
Imagination
Live models
Twisting plots
Li’l Abner
–
Al Capp
Dogpatch
Character
Fearless Fosdick
Difficult satirist
Terry and the Pirates
–
Milton Caniff
Manifest destiny
Pirates in the China Seas
Dragon Lady
Connie
Pat Ryan
Prince Valiant
–
Hal Foster
In the days of King Arthur
There be dragons
Our favorite plesiosaur
Romancing romance
Nancy
–
Ernie Bushmiller
Precocious child
Minimalist art
Attributes
Sluggo & Nancy
Fairness
Brenda Starr, Reporter
–
Dale Messick
Dalia’s struggle
Girl reporter
Assignments
Pogo
–
Walt Kelly
Okefenokee Swamp
Simple J. Malarke
He is us
Peanuts
–
Charles M. Schultz
The necessity of suffering
Kite-eating tree
The football gag
World War One Flying Ace
Dennis the Menace
–
Hank Ketcham
American boy
Girls have cooties
The Wilsons
Zippy the Pinhead
–
Bill Griffith
Weighty concerns
Countercultural hero
Zippy
vs.
Griffy
Peevology
Calvin and Hobbes
–
Bill Watterson
Artistic freedom
Version of reality
Monster in outer space
Not as scary
Macanudo
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Liniers
Meta
Visually
Duendes
Cul de Sac
–
Richard Thompson
Alice Otterloop
Insanity plea
Ernesto
Little Neuro