ahtr newspaper comics in the united states

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