If you read this site with any regularity you know that I love comics. Today I noticed that GoComics.com has started a new “strip” that will showcase some of the oldest newspaper comics and thus provide a history to their origins. Should be well worth a daily look!
About Origins of the Sunday Comics
This is where it all started! From the Yellow Kid and the Katzenjammer Kids to Little Nemo and Little Jimmy, these are the origins of the American comic strip, created at a time when there were no set styles or formats, when artistic anarchy helped spawn a new medium. This series will present the earliest offerings—from 1895 to 1915—of the famous and lesser-known cartoonists who where there when comics were born—over 150 creations from more then 50 superb artists, most reproduced here for the first time in over 100 years. Based on the new book from Sunday Press: Society is Nix, Gleeful Anarchy at the Dawn of the American Comic Strip—a 152-page volume reprinting these Sundays in their original broadsheet size. Click here for more information. Sunday Press Presents will feature more classic comic strips at GoComics. Coming soon: The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland
via Origins of the Sunday Comics Comic Strip on GoComics.com.
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