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10. Sanjak and Sexuality
Milton Caniff’s groundbreaking Terry and The Pirates comic strip was innovative for many reasons, including its cinematic panel angles, use of chiaroscuro to create dramatic scenes and gripping story...
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9. Animating Alice
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum’s collection includes a small but significant collection of artwork from traditional, hand-drawn animated films. The images included here show a portion...
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8. No Evil Shall Escape My Sight
Like all popular culture, comics reflect what is happening in society. During the Civil Rights era, the creators of superhero comics responded to the movement by adding more diverse superheroes to...
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7. Krazy Kat and Identity
From 1913-1944, George Herriman created Krazy Kat, one of the most imaginative, poetic, and visually inventive comic strips of all time. Herriman’s mixed-race family “passed” as white after moving from...
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6. The Kid That Launched the Comics
The Yellow Kid was one of the first comic strip characters to appear in the innovative color Sunday supplements, which were pioneered by daily newspapers in the mid 1890s. An Irish immigrant street...
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5. Hogarth: Father of Modern Copyright Law
William Hogarth has been called the “father of modern British satire” because of his innovative social and political satirical engravings. He is best known for his numerous series of sequential...
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4. The Art of Invention
Rube Goldberg may be one of only a few early cartoonists to remain a household name. While he is not broadly remembered for his cartoons themselves, Goldberg’s legacy lives on through the complex,...
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3. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
There are some issues that our society seems to struggle with but never fully resolve. They repeatedly surface in the public consciousness and are subsequently reflected in the work of editorial...
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2. The Incredible Shrinking Comics
“As comic strips are printed smaller and smaller, the drawings and dialogue have to get simpler and simpler to stay legible. Cartoons are just words and pictures, and you can only eliminate so much of...
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1. The Makings of MAD
Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood lampooned popular superhero characters like DC’s Superman and Fawcett Comics’ Captain Marvel in this pivotal 1953 Superduperman story. It was the first parody of its...
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