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53 Cards in this Set
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Will Eisner (1917-2005 cartoonist) |
*created the comic strip “The Spirit”, referred to comics as sequential art, popularized the term graphic novel, created graphic novel *a legend in the comic industry.He pioneered the medium and strovefor innovation until his death in early 2005.At a young age, Eisner showed his talent for artselling work to comic magazines by his teensand entrepreneurship—by his 20s *made characters such as black hawk and sheena *Eisner experimented with splash pages,panel design, pacing, storytelling,and just about everything else.He worked on “educational andindustrial cartooning” for many years.He also created many "graphic novels”,effectively pioneering that medium |
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Rudolphe Topffer (Swiss 1799-1846) |
“grandfather of the comic strip”, the combination of words and picture to form its own language |
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Nancy |
*little girl created by ernie bushmiller *breaks fourth wall |
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Joseph Pulitzer
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*Newspaper Publisher1847-1911
*An award given for achievements innewspaper and online journalism,literature, and musical composition *Pulitzer created The World as a Sunday supplementmodeled after those sorts of magazines (Life, Puck, Judge) *The New York World |
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Richard Outcault1863 – 1928 American Cartoonist
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*creator of Hogan’s Alley
*creator of mickey dugan aka the yellow kid and buster brown *Richard Outcaultkeeps the nameYELLOW KID |
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The Yellow Kid |
*an American comic-strip character that appeared from 1895 to 1898 in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal *immigration character *newspaper war between hearst and outcault *marketing star |
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William Randolph Hearst 1863-1951
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*In September 1895, Hearst acquiredthe New York Journal.Hearst had inherited an enormous fortune,and he used much of it in a competitionto take circulation away from Pulitzer *He lowered the price of the Journal to a penny,whereas the World cost 2 cents *Hearst was so impressedby the popularity of theYellow Kid that he wanted toget Outcault to do the stripfor him at the New YorkJournal |
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Yellow Journalism |
*Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. *In the battle both publishers used the Yellow Kid to barter for readers. Posters and other types of promotions featured the Yellow Kid - he could be seen all over New York. |
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The Katzenjammer Kids |
*created by rudolph dirks. the k kids taken from himby the publisher William Randolph Hearst and later drawn by Harold Knerr in 1914 *Dirks returns and resumed resumed the strip in the New York World under the title 'Hans und Fritz'
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Winsor McCay 1869-1934 American Cartoonist-Animator |
*creator of the comic strip, little nemo in slumberland, and the animated film, gertie the dinosaur *pioneered many animation techniques (inbetweening, cycling, and registration marks) *acircus billboard painterturned cartoonist.
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Little Nemo in Slumberland 1905-1926, The New York Herald |
*created by winsor mccay *In 1911 Hearst hired McCay tobring Little Nemo to his paper- renamed In the Land of Wonderful Dreams. *His use ofperspective and color in Little Nemoas well as the large format of the full-page weekly allowed readers toliterally get lost in the beautifully drawn stories. *turned into an animated film and video game *"Winsor McCay was the first original genius of the comicstrip medium" |
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Lyonel Feininger 1871-1956 American-German Painter |
*creator of kin-der kids and wee willie winkie's world *painted big news! and street paris pink sky *The cartoonist, a New Yorker who had emigrated to Germanyat sixteen and returned to safe harbor in America in 1937 became a celebrated second-generation cubist, one of the Bauhaus boys |
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George Herriman American Cartoonist 1880 - 1944 |
*created the comic strip, krazy kat *born in new orleans and came from a line of french-speaking louisiana creole *poet laureate of comics "The basic love triangle that encapsulated the comic was played over and overin a seemingly endless number of varieties" * Krazy Kat loves Ignatz Mouse unyieldingly. *Ignatz does not return the love - instead the mouse beans the kat with a brick. *Krazy takes the brick as a sign of affection. *Ossifa Pup loves Krazy Kat - and as such seeks to defend the Katfrom the abuse of Ignatz (seemingly in an attempt to win the Kats love). *Ironically Ossifa would often incarcerate Ignatz in a jail made of bricks. |
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rube goldberg |
*created boob mcnutt *his comic strip, inventions of prof butts, inspired the phrase "the rube goldberg device" |
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frank king |
*creator of gasoline alley |
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frank king |
*creator of gasoline alley *relationship with son |
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gasoline alley |
*created by frank king *a comic strip created by Frank King and distributed by Tribune Content Agency. It centers on the lives of patriarch Walt Wallet, his family, and residents in the town of Gasoline Alley, with storylines reflecting traditional American values |
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ernie bushmiller |
*creator of nancy and fritzi ritz |
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Elzie Crisler (EC) Segar |
*creator of the thimble theater and popeye *made during ww1 (1919-1929) |
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Thimble Theatre |
*created by ec sagar *features a young girl (olive) and her brother (castor) |
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adventure strips |
*the sense of american rugged individualism. they championed the little guy standing up against the bullies of tyranny *contained the most offensive racial stereotypes |
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harold gray american cartoonist 1894-1968 |
*creator of little annie *one of the creators from the adventure strip formula |
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little orphan annie 1924-2010 |
*comic strip about the daily doings of a little girl, who teams up with sandy the dog and daddy warbucks, but became riddled with world-traveling adventure and espionage *turned into movies *started out humorous and aimed for children but had dark and political moments for adults |
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milton caniff american cartoonist 1907-1988 |
*created the comic strip, terry and the pirates *creator of the strip, steve canyon *considered the Rembrandt of comics *In 1934 Caniff was asked by the Chicago Tribune to create an adventure strip,the result was Terry and the Pirates *inking style |
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terry and the pirates |
*After America's entry into World War II, Terry joined the United States Army Air Forces. The series then became almost exclusively about World War II with much action centering on a US Army base in China *femme fatales |
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pulps |
*contains genres such as Westerns, Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Detective, Spicy, Romance *inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955 |
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hal foster |
*often called the‘Father of the AdventureStrip’ – began his comic stripcareer in comics in 1927illustrating the newspaperadaptation of Edgar RiceBurroughs’s pulp storiesTarzan. |
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prince valiant |
*created by harold foster *Based loosely on Arthurianlegend, the style was verymuch that of his work onTarzan |
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alex raymond American Cartoonist1909-1956 |
*creator of flash gordon *competed with buck rogers *realistic style |
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flash gordon |
*created by alex raymond |
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buster crabbe |
actor of flash gordon and buck rogers |
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dick tracy |
*created by chester gould *crime fighter against old gangsters *invent iwatch and was violent |
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al capp American Cartoonist,Satirist, Radio & TVCommentator1909-1979 |
*creator of lil abner *Al Cappmakes the cover ofTime MagazineNovember 6, 1950 *Li’l Abnergetting hitchedtoDaisy Maemakes Al Cappmore money. |
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lil abner |
*Shmoofirst appears inLi’l Abner *lil abner had an assistant *Li’l Abnergetting hitchedtoDaisy Mae *Daisy Mae (Leslie Parrish) intends to catch Li'l Abner (Peter Palmer) on Sadie Hawkins Day, so he'll be forced to marry her. But before then, the small town learns it's been declared the most useless place in the country and will be used as an atomic test bomb site, unless they can prove their worth. Abner's mother, Mammy Yokum (Billie Hayes), could have the answer -- but even her Yokumberry tonic might not be enough to save Dogpatch *fearless Frederick (dick tracy) *Fearless Fosdick was along-running parody ofChester Gould's policedetective character,Dick Tracy.It appeared intermittently asa comic strip-within-a-strip,in Al Capp's classic satiricalcomic strip, Li'l Abner |
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max maines |
*Eastern Color Printing.Eight-page color newsprintpublication that reprintedcomic strip licensed fromthe McNaught and McClure Syndicate |
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jerry siegel and joe shuster (american writer and canadian cartoonist) |
*creators of superman *Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster first created a bald telepathic villain bent on dominating the entire world. He appeared in the short story "The Reign of the Super-Man" from Science Fiction #3,a science fiction fanzine that Siegel published in 1933. *1946 Seigel and Shuster sue National Comics unsuccessfully. *1975 Warner Brothers awards Siegel and Shuster $20,000 per year compensation andname credit moving forward. |
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superman |
first appeared in Action Comics No. 1June 1938 |
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bob kane and bill finger |
*creators of batman *Kane had been influenced by the 1926 Roland West film The Bat. |
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batman |
*first appeared in Detective Comics # 27 |
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captain marvel |
*Solomon…. Wisdom Hercules…..Strength Atlas………..Stamina Zeus…………..Power Achilles…...Courage Mercury………Speed (shazam) *Marvel Family The First Super Hero Family *Captain Marvel was created by artist C. C. Beck and writer Bill Parker |
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captain marvel jr |
*Elvis thought Captain Marvel Jr. was cool. *Master Comics No. 27 |
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william moulton marston |
*creator of wonder woman |
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wonder woman |
*first appeared inAll Star Comics #8, 1941, by William Moulton Marston |
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joe simon and jack kirby |
*creators of captain america *Joe Simon and Jack Kirby were one of thefirst great creative teams in comics.They would both write stories and draw them. They worked together for more than 25years. Kirby worked for Fox Features.While there, he developed his ability towork fast, producing ten pages a day.His dedication was impeccable, and itmade an impression on Simon, who wasworking for publisher Martin Goodmanat the time.Simon thus proposed a partnership toKirby. They eventually began working forTimely Comics. |
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matt baker |
*an American comic book artist and illustrator, best known for drawing early comics heroines such as the costumed crimefighter Phantom Lady, and romance comics *Matt Baker is the first known African Americanartist to find success in the comic-book industry *Matt Baker drew the firstAfrican Americancomic-book hero, VOODAH *Matt Baker Drew one of the firstGraphic Novels |
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bill gaines |
*took over company from brother, max gaines *Bill Gaines began to assemble a younger groupof talented staff and replaced his father’s titleswith newer ones.EC had been operating in the red since beforeBill took over; the new titles that he started wereuninventive and very derivative of other comicsin the market at the time, but at least they weremaking more money than the previous books. *created genres such as horror |
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ec comics (education comics/entertaining comics) |
*tons of new genres such as horror and science fiction *The crime stories gave way to more violent narratives, which in turn gave way to gory and gruesome horror stories. Publishers became more and more brash, publishing outrageous and bloody yarns. Some were inventive and well drawn, as with EC; but most were weak, with absent plots, relying solely on the blood and gore to hold the story. |
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tales from the crypt |
*horror comics *the crypt-keeper, old witch, vault keeper |
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Harvey Kurtzman, American Cartoonistand Editor,1924-1993 |
*creator of mad, two-fisted tales(war) *Gaines suggested that Kurtzmansqueeze in another less laborious bookinto his schedule.The result was a humor titled called Mad.Kurtzman was the creative geniusbehind all of the work in the early Mad books. |
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mad |
*created by harvey kurtzman and will elder *humorous parody comics *Mad Magazine was the only oldtitle EC kept publishing.Sadly, Mad ceased publicationin 2019 *Alfred E. Neuman, MAD mascot (smiley mf) |
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Dr. Fredric Wertham, German-born American Psychiatrist, 1895-1981 |
*Pioneer in Neurobiology *Helped diagnose Schizophrenia in children *Author of a paper that concluded serrated schools were detrimental to the mentalhealth of children. *“Hitler was a beginner compared to the comic-book industry.” *hated comics because he thought of them as racist and promoted unhealthy ads for children *took comics to the supreme court (Senate Hearing 1954) |
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seduction of the innocent |
*a book by German-born American psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, published in 1954, that warned that comic books were a negative form of popular literature and a serious cause of juvenile delinquency *claims that its not for children |
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comic code |
*In order to save face, the surviving comic book publishers, acting as the Association of ComicsMagazine Publishers, cobbled together an organization called theComics Code Authority *A crackdown on "sexy" images; no nude images *Criminals should always be bad and never triumph over good. Comics should makeit clear that they should not be imitated. *Authority figures (cops, government officials, organizations) should be respected. *A ban on torture. *Werewolves, zombies, vampires, and ghouls couldn't be used. *Entreaties against slang and "vulgar" language. *An order to respect the sanctity of the family (i.e., no divorce or gay people). *A ban on comics dealing in racial and religious prejudice — this sounds good intheory, but as the Comic Book Defense League Fund points out, it eliminatedstories that challenged the religious beliefs of Comic Code administratorCharles F. Murphy and reduced representation of non-white people. |
