Comments on: The Comics Before 1945

By: George McManus’s Bringing Up Father » Comics Worth Reading

George McManus’s Bringing Up Father » Comics Worth Reading — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:48:48 +0000

[...] the domestic humor of Maggie and Jiggs. I’d learned a little about the strip while reading The Comics Before 1945, but R.C. Harvey’s nine pages of introduction comprehensively covers the origin of the [...]

By: Cole Moore Odell

Cole Moore Odell — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:39:38 +0000

Krazy Kat was lost on most audiences and even editors of the papers that Hearst forced to publish it for decades–but it really is amazing. I’ve got seven of the recent Fantagraphics reprint volumes. Herriman’s achievement gets more impressive, and comes into greater clarity the more strips I read. He captured so many nuances of human relationships to one another/nature/ideas through the endless variations of his basic set-up. The wordplay is clever, sometimes real poetry. And the cartooning, once you acquire the taste, really is beautiful. There’s the same kind of deceptive grace in those squiggly lines and surrealistically shifting backdrops that Schulz pulled out of his own pen.

By: Mark S.

Mark S. — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:26:22 +0000

I have a few overview history of comic strip type books, and this is one of the best. And I have the same problem you do. I would like to see more of many of the strips.

By: Tim Rifenburg

Tim Rifenburg — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:05:21 +0000

Just a heads up for those that want to check out both volumes. Barnes and Noble has a volume that has both the before 1945 strips and the other with strips after 1945. It has been in the Bargain section and goes for $19.95. A definite bargain and if you are into strips or are new to them and want an overview of them, the compilation book is a good buy.