The research itself is rigorous, but the way it’s formed into a narrative and interwoven with the art is extra impressive. A real-life cliffhanger to set up issue #2! Is It Good?Ĭomic Book History of Comics #1 is painstaking, that’s for sure, and in more ways than one. When that company packed up and headed south, Jack stayed behind in New York and looked for a new way to monetize his artistic skill. Not the most noble of beginnings for our beloved pastime.Ī discussion of early animation follows, which might seem out of place until it’s pointed out that Jack Kurtzberg (recognize that name?) worked for Walt Disney’s main rival, a fact that’s pretty ironic given the business dealings of the past several years. That’s not really the sequential art we think of as comics, though, which wasn’t innovated until 1896, with a character that would eventually lend its name to the derisive term “yellow journalism.” What we now think of as a “comic strip” format would come later, intended as a method to advertise horse-racing. Listen to the latest episode of our weekly comics podcast!Ĭomic Book History of Comics #1 is no handwaving overview - it goes all the way back to cave paintings, and what scientists think they might have represented.
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