The History of the American Comic Strip and Comic Book

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• DA

  @dawg065 · 2 weeks ago

  i have a hard cover book of those early gasoline alley strips.

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• IG

  @IGRETRO · 4 years ago

  Thanks for sharing. It’s really not easy to get more information about the early comic books with no superheroes.

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• GU

  @gurenchamp · 6 years ago

  A list of some of the strips mentioned:<br>*The Yellow Kid / Hogan&apos;s Alley<br>*The Katzenjammer Kids (which the narrator said largely pioneered the cartoon language of movement/energy such as stars and whooshes)<br>*Mutt and Jeff<br>*Polly and Her Pals<br>*Happy Hooligan<br>*Little Nemo in Slumberland<br>*Gasoline Alley (had characters that kept aging over like 70 years and is still running)<br>*Wash Tubbs<br>*Captain Easy<br>*Buzz Sawyer<br>*Mickey Mouse comic (came out after the success of the Steamboat Willie animated short)<br>*Thimble Theatre (the pre-Popeye series that focused on Olive Oil until Popeye&apos;s introduction was super popular)<br>*Barney Google (became Snuffy Sniff)<br>*Alley Oop<br>*Flash Gordon<br>*Tarzan<br>*The Phantom<br>*Little Orphan Annie<br>*Dick Tracy (birth of the comic book police procedural, says the narrator)<br>*Terry and the Pirates<br>*Tiny Tim<br>*Peanuts<br>*Calvin and Hobbes<br><br>Comic BOOKS rather than strips:<br>*Action Comics, Detective Comics, Captain Marvel, Wonder Woman, Tales from the Crypt, Ghost Stories, Archie, etc., comprising the non-newspaper comics.<br>*Westerns: Kid Colt, Lone Ranger<br>*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, &quot;Animal Comics&quot;, Mowgli, The Twilight Zone, Bewitched<br>*Dell Comics turned into Gold Key Comics and started coming up with their own IPs<br>*Harvey Comics: Casper<br>*Although superhero comics dwindled for a while, they made a comeback in the 50s.<br><br>Listed out for those who have poor short-term memory like me.

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• AB

  @abrahama2643 · 8 years ago

  Do these people go to concerts and interrupt the musicians on stage?

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• JA

  @jamesbrophy315 · 8 months ago

  This was really great. Thanks for sharing it, I enjoyed it alot.

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• TR

  @Trisuku · 3 years ago

  Thank you I learned a lot!

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• JE

  @jerrygraves6531 · 9 months ago

  I didn&apos;t know Casper came from comic strips😊

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• JE

  @jerrygraves6531 · 9 months ago

  You just have to include boondocks as a great comic strip for it to become such a phenomenon in animation.

• HU

  @hughbo52 · 7 years ago

  Wow, that was so neat. &nbsp;Very fun and informative. &nbsp;So many I&apos;d heard of but had not really gotten a chance to see. &nbsp;Ooohh the memories!

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• BE

  @benmclaughlin6854 · 5 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVHocECJgsw&amp;t=1970">32:50</a>-<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVHocECJgsw&amp;t=2100">35:00</a>. Really, how inconsiderate is that guy, stealing 2 minutes out of the speakers&apos; time, not to mention getting the speaker off track.

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• TH

  @therealcapitanchile · 6 years ago

  thanks for this video. here in my country, Chile, &nbsp;i research about comicbooks too

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• DU

  @DukeCartoons · 6 years ago

  Amazing lecture man! Thank&apos;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

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