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Home arrow The Pioneers

The Pioneers
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Happy Hooligan
Happy Hooligan' (San Francisco Examiner, 1902). Art/script: Fred Opper.
Nevertheless, the backlash was not well organized,  and amounted to little more than a few church meetings and a drizzle of complaining letters to newspapers. As in Britain, the strip form was already too well established: events had passed the point of no return, and too many dollars had been spent. The newspaper strip boom and the fledgling reprint book publishing industry were laying the foundations for a major comics explosion, and nobody was going to stop it. How the American 'comic book' came into existence as a publication of a particular size and design, and consisting of original strip material, is one of the themes of our next chapter.
The Gumps
'The Gumps' [Chicago Sunday Tribune, 1927). Art/script Sidney Smith.


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