International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature
Knockout artists (including myself) were encouraged to model their comic style on McNeill. The years of the Second World War wer ...
away from Thomson’s by Odhams Press to create the characters and do much of the drawing for a new comic, Wham (20 June 1964). Hi ...
bi-monthly. Some of its characters, such as The Fat Slags have been animated, shown on television and released on video. Its sty ...
founding fathers of the American strip cartoon, had joined the staff. The following year a rival weekly, Judge, appeared, to be ...
origin of American comics. This is not to decry the Kid’s enormous popularity: he was merchandised in many collectable forms; he ...
the Empire, thanks to British editions published by Chambers of London and Edinburgh. The Buster Brown books, enormously popular ...
The first attempt at a new-look style of American comic was published on 16 January 1929 by George T.Delacorte Jr, head of Dell ...
and set the style that would take the American comic book around the world, conquering all other national variations. Action Com ...
kind of comic from superheroes to college boy capers, and especially, perhaps, science- fiction comics such as Planet, published ...
Here, in fact, was the dauntless American hero in action, the lone frontiersman opening up an untamed continent, fighting savage ...
Moving away from Fenimore Cooper-style frontiersmen, dime novel heroes began a new trend when somebody had the bright idea of dr ...
saw public print through the open-eye trademark of Allan Pinkerton and his detective agency (motto ‘We Never Sleep’). Pinkerton’ ...
250 million copies, and inspire juvenile weeklies (Brave and Bold, Might and Main, Wide Awake Weekly and others). But meanwhile ...
Calendar of Horrors. Criminal history could not provide enough material for Lloyd’s profitable presses, and so a new industry wa ...
Great Britain. Finally both men issued virtually identical papers on the same day: Brett’s Rovers of the Sea and Emmett’s Rover’ ...
bulging Billy Bunter from 1908, was unique in that during its 1, 197 episodes boys arrived at school, rose from form to form, an ...
Wertham, F. (1955) Seduction of the Innocent, London: Museum Press. TYPES AND GENRES 263 Waugh, C. (1947) The Comics, New York: ...
21 Religious Writing for Children In its early stages of development, children’s literature was closely associated with religion ...
According to Isaac Watts’s Discourse on the Way of Instruction by Catechisms (1730), catechisms, were ‘the best Summaries of Rel ...
(1725). Yet educators also prescribed different forms of education for different classes, one consequence of which was that auth ...
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