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“Mit Dose Kids, SOCIETY IS NIX!” So said The Inspector about the
Katzenjammer Kids. But he could have been speaking of all comic
strips in their formative years in the early 1900s. From the very first
color Sunday supplement, comics were a driving force in newspaper
sales, offering a wild parody of the world and the culture
found in the surrounding pages. Society didn’t stand a chance!
These are the origins of the American comic strip, born at a time
when there were no set styles or formats, when creators had the freedom
to experiment, when artistic anarchy helped spawn a new medium.
The genesis of comics is laid out in a dozen essays by the greatest in
their field — historians like Thierry Smolderen, Brian Walker, Alfredo
Castelli, Bill Kartalopoulos, Paul C. Tumey and others. And in the second,
revised edition of this seminal collection: over 200 comic strips!
The earliest comics by acknowledged greats like R. F. Outcault, George
McManus, Winsor McCay, and George Herriman, along with creations of
more than fifty other superb cartoonists, known and unknown.
The classic strips, most not printed in over 100 years, are presented
in their original colors at the incredible oversized format Sunday Press
is known for: all the better to see the comics that would inspire the next
century of comics to come!