Origins of the Sunday Comics by Peter Maresca for November 27, 2013

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    Buzza Wuzza  almost 11 years ago

    Can you imagine how good this strip could have been if this guy could draw?

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    davidf42  almost 11 years ago

    Amazing and beautiful!@Buzza Wuzza, I’m going to guess you were being facetious, right? The artwork, to me, is terrific!

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    drbob456x  almost 11 years ago

    The clown slightly resembes Jiggs from the strip ‘Bringing Up Father.’

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    Neo Stryder  almost 11 years ago

    I must look if Little Nemo have its own section here.

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    ReneTray  almost 11 years ago

    Ty.

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    WSR  almost 11 years ago

    Brilliant!!

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    pauljmsn  almost 11 years ago

    I will agree that Winsor McCay was a superb artist. I will be sacrilegious enough to say that his dialogue – and the layout of his word balloons – not so much. At least not to our modern sensibilities. Perhaps that was common for strips in those days.

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    pauljmsn  almost 11 years ago

    I will agree that Winsor McCay was a superb artist. I will be sacrilegious enough to say that his dialogue – and the layout of his word balloons – not so much. At least not to our modern sensibilities. Perhaps that was common for strips in those days.

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    craigwestlake  almost 11 years ago

    The only artwork (ot the day) that I can think of to compare would be the old Prince Valiant strips…

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    ceylondiver  almost 11 years ago

    What always seems weird is the contrast between the amazing draftsmanship and the word balloons, which look as if a child drew them. They look like those home-made signs fans bring to sporting events, with the shrinking words!

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    John W Kennedy Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    Yes, in general, early comics had bad dialog and bad lettering. (Editorial cartoons, going back to the 1700s, were generally just as bad.) McCay is no better and no worse than the others. It took about 20 years for cartoonists to learn that, instead of writing, “Oh dear! I have fallen in the sea, and now I am sure that I shall be drowned, for no one will rescue me,” it was better to write “HELP!”.

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