ahtr newspaper comics in the united states
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Newspaper Comics
in the United States
1895 to World War II
Thomas Nast, “Something that Did Blow
Over,” Harper's Weekly, November 7,
1871.
George Luks, “The Open-Air School in
Hogan’s Alley,” Hogan’s Alley,
October 18, 1896.
Clockwise from top left:
Parrot: “Oh! Don’t mind a little thing like that Mr. Hogan!”
Sign on left-hand building: “Flats to let – see de janitor
first be foor you move in see!”
Sign on building in top right corner: “To the board uv
eddicashun “Plese send us anuther teacher! Weeve wore
out three teachers to-day! N.B. we didn’t hurt them oney
we had fun wid them. Good-bye.”
Text on wall next to cat: “Say! Tammany sez their ain’t no
skules becos the Republicans didn’t bild them! Ain’t that
rich!”
Sign on fence: “Say! New York City is two poor to pervide
skool houses and us poor kids has to lurn in the open air or
grow up ignorunt! Say! But aint de board uv edukashun on
de hog! Well!”
Text on black box: “16 to 1 we love our teacher nit 4 + 1 =
6”
Text on the Yellow Kid’s shirt: “Say! They’re imitatin me
all around town! I’m the Sunday World’s Kid and have
been for a year & a half! All others are fakes.” [This is a
reference to Outcault’s McFadden's Row of Flats at the
New York Journal]
Text on red hat: “When I grow up I’m goin to be a skule
teacher.”
Text on book: “This is a dandy buk”
George Luks, “The Open-Air School in
Hogan’s Alley,” Hogan’s Alley,
October 18, 1896.
George Luks, Allen Street, c. 1905.
George Luks, “The Open-Air School in
Hogan’s Alley,” Hogan’s Alley,
October 18, 1896.
George Luks, “The Open-Air School in
Hogan’s Alley,” Hogan’s Alley,
October 18, 1896.
Robert Delaunay, The Cardiff
Team, 1912–13.
George Luks, “The Open-Air School in
Hogan’s Alley,” Hogan’s Alley,
October 18, 1896.
Rudolph Dirks,
The Katzenjammer Kids,
June 2, 1912.
Winsor McCay, Little Nemo in
Slumberland, July 2, 1908.
Salvador Dalí, Soft Construction with
Boiled Beans: Premonitions of Civil
War, 1936.
George Herriman, Krazy Kat,
May 24, 1936.
George Herriman, Krazy Kat,
September 12, 1937.
Joan Miró, Dialogue of Insects,
1924–25.
George Herriman, Krazy Kat,
September 12, 1937.
Öyvind Fahlström, Performing K.K.
No. 11 (Sunday Edition), 1962.
Flash Gordon magazine cover,
December 1936.
Advertisement for Flash Gordon movie
serial, 1936.
Alex Raymond, Flash Gordon, February 11, 1934.
World War II to the Present
A contemporary newspaper
comics page
Winsor McCay, Little Nemo in
Slumberland, July 2, 1908.
Walt Kelly, Earth Day Poster, 1971.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, n.d.
Alison Bechdel, “The Rule,” Dykes to Watch Out For, 1985