The Birth of Comics: How Anarchy and Innovation Led to the Comics of Today
On the panel was Peter Maresca, Paul Karasik, Peter Kuper and Bruce Simon. The group spoke about early comics, starting with the Yellow Kid in the New York World newspaper, they also spoke about the Katzenjammer Kids, Rube Goldberg, Little Sammy Sneeze, Happy Hooligan and Maud. They talked about how a lot of these early comics were anti-authority and were on the side of the working-class immigrant, how the entire early comic strip field was anarchy both in terms of style, content and in business, the influences on MAD, the origins of the terms cartoon and story. They also spoke about the creators Jimmy Swinnerton and Frederick Opper.
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