Bibliography

An ongoing compendium of secondary sources for comic strip history I have found valuable.

Books

  1. Ahmed, Maaheen, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Comics, Cambridge University Press, 2023
  2. Ahrens, Jorn Ahrens and Arno Meteling, eds. Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence, Continuum, 2010 and Arno Meteling, eds. Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence, Continuum, 2010
  3. Berger, Arthur Asa. The Comic-Stripped American; What Dick Tracy, Blondie, Daddy Warbucks, and Charlie Brown Tell Us About Ourselves. New York: Penguin, 1973
  4. Blackbeard, Bill, The Comic Strip Century: Celebrating 100 Years of an American Art Form, Kitchen Sink Press, 1995
  5. Blackbeard, Bill. R.F. Outcault’s The Yellow Kid: A Centennial Celebration of the Kid Who Started the Comics. Northampton, 1993.
  6. Blackbeard, Bill, The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics,Smithsonian, 1977
  7. Scott Bukatman, The Politics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit, University of California Press, 2012.
  8. Canemaker, John. Winsor McCay : His Life and Art. Revised, Expanded Edition, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005
  9. Jean Lee Cole, How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920, University Press of Mississippi, 2020.
  10. Jared Gardner, Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First Century Storytelling, Stanford University Press, 2012.
  11. Ian Gordon, Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890-1945, Smithsonian, 1998.
  12. Harvey, R.C.. The Art of the Funnies: An Aesthetic History
  13. Harvey, Robert C., Children of the Yellow Kid: The Evolution of the American Comic Strip, University of Washington Press, 1998
  14. Harvey, R.C. Milton Caniff
  15. Marshall, Richard. America’s Great Comic Strip Artists. New York: Abbeville Press, 1989.
  16. Mullaney, Dean and Bruce Cantwell, King of the Comics: One Hundred Years of King Features Syndicate, IDW, 2015
  17. Katherine Roeder, Wide Awake in Slumberland: Fantasy, Mass Culture and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCay, University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
  18. Robinson, Jerry, The Comics: An Illustrated History of Comic Strip Art, Penguin, 1974
  19. Walker, Brian, The Comics: Since 1945, Abrams, 2002
  20. Walker, Brian, The Comics: Before 1945, Abrams, 2004
  21. Wanzo, Rebecca, The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging, New York University Press, 2020.

Online Articles

  1. R.C. Harvey. “Outcault, Goddard, The Comics and the Yellow Kid.” The Comics Journal, 2016. Web Site
  2. Heer, Jeet, “The Complex Origins of Little Orphan Annie,” August, 2020, Bunk.
  3. Heer, Jeet, “Pulp Propaganda,” Sept. 30, 2015, The New Republic.
  4. Westbrook, David. “From Hogan’s Alley to Coconino County: Four Narratives of the Early Comic Strip.” 1999: Web Site