Another turn of the century ABC book which looks very much like a modern comic book. Primers and spellers and the like don't get their proper due in the history of comics.
Terrific artwork, though the "X-mas" baby looks a little old for the part. Interesting to see "X-mas" being used here, given the controversy associated nowadays with the abbreviation!
Lee
Finding Its Form: The Evolution of the Modern Comic Book
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A dark reading of Jack and Jill (1878)!
From More Classics of Babyland (1878), one dark reading of the story of Jack and Jill! We like to think of the middle-class folks of this era as genteel, but if this is any indication of their stance on corporal punishment, then... yikes.
Lee
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Illustrations for "Tale of a Comet" (1881)
Comic book-style illustrations (illustrator not credited) for J.T. Trowbridge's poem, "A Tale of a Comet," in the January, 1881 issue of Wide Awake magazine.
Thursday, April 27, 2017
More from Aesop's Fables (1884):
This is a follow-up to an earlier post. Here's another chapter from this amazing 1884 children's volume, with superb (and mildly nightmarish!) art by Edmund H. Garrett.
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