Buy this book on-line GIFFORD**, DENIS: : The History of the British Newspaper Comic StripUK.AYLESBURY,BUCKS.SHIRE PUBLICATIONS LTD.,1971. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,small 8vo paperback original,1st edn. NFINE.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj - as issued - paperback original.B/w+grey comic strip illustrated wraps; with negligible
shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges or corners -no nicks or tears - no spine/ backstrip creases,assumed an unread copy. Top+fore-edges aged/toned - as usual/ normal - contents bright,tight and clean. UK,8vo p/back Original,1st edn,2-96pp includes cartoon illustrated title page, profuse b/w cartoons+cartoon-strips throughout the text.
The strip-cartoon,four frames of fun,or three of thrills is so familiar a feature of the everyday newspaper scene that one would be hard put to find a reader who recalled the day when no such cartoon capers brightened his papers.Yet even such everlasting enigmas such as 'Garth',who has outlived two artists and is into his third,or such evident eternals as 'The Gambols' (who seem to have been with us forever; actually date from 1950),had to begin somewhere,and are themselves but links in the evolutionary chain,a parade of panels stretching back to a dim and distant 1904.
Pop,Garth,The Gambols,The Arkubs and other characters have enlivened our newspapers for many years.They are a 20thC development,links in an evolutionary chain that began in 1904.This book traces the history of the strip from that time,from Haselden's 'Mr Simkins' to John Kent's 'Varoomshka', illustrates about 100 examples,and recalls the skilled art of such cartoonists as J.F.Horrabin, Norman Pett, Hugh McClelland and Bernard Graddon.
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