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In The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay, Thierry Smolderen presents a cultural landscape whose narrative differs in many ways from those presented by other historians of the comic strip. Rather than beginning his inquiry with the popularly accepted "sequential art" definition of the comic strip, Smolderen instead wishes to engage with the historical dimensions that inform that definition. His goal is to understand the processes that led to the twentieth-century comic strip, the highly recognizable species of picture stories that he sees crystallizing around 1900 in the United States. Featuring close readings of the picture stories, caricatures, and humoristic illustrat...
Mario must outwit Bowser, Lemmy Koopa, and their fiendish accomplice, the Monster Mixer - and only the reader can make the choices that allow him to do so. There are codes to crack, puzzles to solve and mazes to conquer.
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Originally published 1970 without index.
An entertaining study of how Michigan put American boat building on the map