The History of the American Comic Strip and Comic Book
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2017
- A lecture I did at the Selby Public Library in Sarasota, FL on October 2, 2017. I was going a little overtime, so say far too little about the resurgence of superhero comics in the late 1950s & 1960s, but I hope that I managed to cover the early newspaper strips and comic books fairly well.
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A list of some of the strips mentioned:
*The Yellow Kid / Hogan's Alley
*The Katzenjammer Kids (which the narrator said largely pioneered the cartoon language of movement/energy such as stars and whooshes)
*Mutt and Jeff
*Polly and Her Pals
*Happy Hooligan
*Little Nemo in Slumberland
*Gasoline Alley (had characters that kept aging over like 70 years and is still running)
*Wash Tubbs
*Captain Easy
*Buzz Sawyer
*Mickey Mouse comic (came out after the success of the Steamboat Willie animated short)
*Thimble Theatre (the pre-Popeye series that focused on Olive Oil until Popeye's introduction was super popular)
*Barney Google (became Snuffy Sniff)
*Alley Oop
*Flash Gordon
*Tarzan
*The Phantom
*Little Orphan Annie
*Dick Tracy (birth of the comic book police procedural, says the narrator)
*Terry and the Pirates
*Tiny Tim
*Peanuts
*Calvin and Hobbes
Comic BOOKS rather than strips:
*Action Comics, Detective Comics, Captain Marvel, Wonder Woman, Tales from the Crypt, Ghost Stories, Archie, etc., comprising the non-newspaper comics.
*Westerns: Kid Colt, Lone Ranger
*Dell Comics licensed a lot of successful animations into comicbook versions: Looney Tunes, Donald Duck, Raggedy Ann, Porky Pig, Felix the Cat, Scrooge McDuck, Little Lulu, "Animal Comics", Mowgli, The Twilight Zone, Bewitched
*Dell Comics turned into Gold Key Comics and started coming up with their own IPs
*Harvey Comics: Casper
*Although superhero comics dwindled for a while, they made a comeback in the 50s.
Listed out for those who have poor short-term memory like me.
You forget Prince Valiant
Thank you so much!
Thanks for sharing. It’s really not easy to get more information about the early comic books with no superheroes.
Wow, that was so neat. Very fun and informative. So many I'd heard of but had not really gotten a chance to see. Ooohh the memories!
Thank you I learned a lot!
Do these people go to concerts and interrupt the musicians on stage?
Thank you sir, this was informative. I would love to see in depth video of Prince Valiant or Hal Foster
Amazing lecture man! Thank's for all that info! I was looking for something exactly like this this morning and you were the first option that came up from the search :D
It would be impossible to include every noteworthy cartoonist but I was disappointed that the great George Herriman wasn’t mentioned. Krazy Kat is arguably the greatest comic strip of all time.
I agree. It was agonizing to pick out who to include and who to omit when I was putting the lecture together. Simply no time to mention everyone.
I hope I wasn’t being gratuitously critical with my comment. This was a wonderfully informative and entertaining lecture. I am a huge fan of Herriman and to me Krazy Kat is an example of great American art that transcends the category of merely being a comic strip.
@@StephanieM772 No offence was taken at all. I'm glad that Herriman is still appreciated and I'm glad you liked the lecture. Input such as yours is always welcome.
thanks for this video. here in my country, Chile, i research about comicbooks too
32:50-35:00. Really, how inconsiderate is that guy, stealing 2 minutes out of the speakers' time, not to mention getting the speaker off track.
Loved it💜
well done!!
wonderful!
Thank you.
loving it all reddy only ten minutes in. do you happen to have a better Resolution i would love to be able to read the comics along with the video?
I glad you enjoyed the lecture. I'm afraid this is the best resolution I could manage for my video.
Interesting Stuff! Too bad you didn’t have more time to go into more detail about the later comics.
Interesting :)
Interesting.
Excellent intro to the story of the comic strip. The occasionnal interruptions by "amateur comic book historians" was kinda annoying. The only disappointment was the running out of time at the end during early comic book history where you decided to skip the importance of westerns in the 40's and 50's, yet you took the time to talk about war comics quite a lot, a genre that was popular, but never as much as westerns in the 40's and 50's.