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- 15 de Feb, 2015
'Tis time that I introduce you all to some of the great men of newspaper cartooning during its golden age, roughly from the turn of the 20th century to World War II - the days when comic strips took up a whole page on Sundays, and when the form was at its most popular and creative.
First off:
Winsor McCay - one of the greatest artists to have ever worked on the form, most famous for Little Nemo in Slumberland, which boasted great, detailed art. With this and with his earlier Dream of the Rarebit Fiend he managed to really capture the feel of dreams in print like no one else has done since, not even the anime film done by TMS.
George Herriman, of course, was famous for Krazy Kat, a masterpiece of surrealist comic art. He was also perhaps the first really successful black cartoonist as well (though in the past it was debated what race Herriman really was the consensus is that he was black, but could pass for white).
The original Popeye comics by E.C. Segar are brilliant in ways that the Fleischer cartoons - which were brilliant themselves - were not. It was well-written stuff, with tons of great characters who hardly ever appeared in film or TV form, unless you count the Robin Williams movie.
In the area of licensed comics, the Disney stuff is so good it's become a tradition unto itself, and this is where it all started, with Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse comics - he was to Mickey what Carl Barks was to Donald Duck, in that his comics were great adventure stuff. (There ought to have been a show inspired by the comics à la DuckTales.)
This one post-dates World War II but I think Pogo should be covered anyway. Walt Kelly was a genius at political satire.
There are many other names I could think of right now, but those are the ones that come to mind.
First off:
Winsor McCay - one of the greatest artists to have ever worked on the form, most famous for Little Nemo in Slumberland, which boasted great, detailed art. With this and with his earlier Dream of the Rarebit Fiend he managed to really capture the feel of dreams in print like no one else has done since, not even the anime film done by TMS.
George Herriman, of course, was famous for Krazy Kat, a masterpiece of surrealist comic art. He was also perhaps the first really successful black cartoonist as well (though in the past it was debated what race Herriman really was the consensus is that he was black, but could pass for white).
The original Popeye comics by E.C. Segar are brilliant in ways that the Fleischer cartoons - which were brilliant themselves - were not. It was well-written stuff, with tons of great characters who hardly ever appeared in film or TV form, unless you count the Robin Williams movie.
In the area of licensed comics, the Disney stuff is so good it's become a tradition unto itself, and this is where it all started, with Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse comics - he was to Mickey what Carl Barks was to Donald Duck, in that his comics were great adventure stuff. (There ought to have been a show inspired by the comics à la DuckTales.)
This one post-dates World War II but I think Pogo should be covered anyway. Walt Kelly was a genius at political satire.
There are many other names I could think of right now, but those are the ones that come to mind.
