Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870
enters deep into an era of comic history that has been entirely
neglected. This buried cache of mid-Victorian graphic humor is
marvelously rich in pictorial narratives of all kinds. Author David
Kunzle calls this period a ""rebirth"" because of the preceding
long hiatus in use of the new genre, since the Great Age of
Caricature (c.1780-c.1820) when the comic strip was practiced as a
sideline. Suddenly in 1847, a new, post-Toepffer comic strip sparks
to life in Britain,, mostly in periodicals, and especially in
Punch, where all the best artists of the period participated, if
only sporadically: Richard Doyle, John Tenniel, John Leech, Charles
Keene, and George Du Maurier. Until now, this aspect of the
extensive oeuvre of the well-known masters of the new journal
cartoon in Punch has been almost completely ignored. Exceptionally,
George Cruikshank revived just once, in The Bottle, independently,
the whole serious, contrasting Hogarthian picture story. Numerous
comic strips and picture stories appeared in periodicals other than
Punch by artists who were likewise largely ignored. Like the Punch
luminaries, they adopt in semirealistic style sociopolitical
subject matter easily accessible to their (lower-)middle-class
readership. The topics covered in and out of Punch by these strips
and graphic novels range from French enemies King Louis-Philippe
and Emperor Napoleon III to farcical treatment of major historical
events: the Bayeux tapestry (1848), the Great Exhibition of 1851,
and the Franco-Prussian War 1870. Artists explore a great variety
of social types, occupations, and situations such as the emigrant,
the tourist, fox hunting and Indian big game hunting, dueling, the
forlorn lover, the student, the artist, the toothache, the burglar,
the paramilitary volunteer, Darwinian animal metamorphoses, and
even nightmares. In Rebirth of the English Comic Strip, Kunzle
analyzes these much neglected works down to the precocious
modernist and absurdist scribbles of Marie Duval, Europe's first
female professional cartoonist.
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