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Home arrow The Pioneers

The Pioneers
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Bringing Up Father
Panels from 'Bringing Up Father' (King Features Syndicate, 1916). Art/script George McManus.
The first decade of the twentieth century saw an assortment of books published, which collected together the most popular of the newspaper strips, and can be regarded as early precursors of the 'comic books' we know today. These were irregularly published affairs, often in hardback, and subject matter tended towards the most commercial fare. To give some idea of the split between 'highbrow' and 'lowbrow' strip-republications: Foxy Grandpa and Buster Brown featured in dozens of books; Little Nemo appeared in only two; while Feininger and Herriman do not seem to have been collected at all until much later. Usually the publishers of such books were the newspapers in which they had first appeared (notably, the New York Journal), but some independent companies, such as Cupples and Leon, also did well.
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