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Kid Comic Strips

A Genre Across Four Countries

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Ian Gordon

    1. Department of History, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

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  • Analyzes kid comic strips from four different countries
  • Provides a nuanced understanding of the international history of comics through a comparative approach to kid comics

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels (PSCGN)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Why Kid Comics

    • Ian Gordon
    Pages 1-11

  3. America and Australia: Skippy and Ginger Meggs

    • Ian Gordon
    Pages 13-36

  4. America and France: Perry Winkle and Bicot

    • Ian Gordon
    Pages 37-61

  5. America and Britain: Dennis the Menace (s)

    • Ian Gordon
    Pages 63-86

  6. Comics Scholarship and Comparative Studies

    • Ian Gordon
    Pages 87-90

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 91-94
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About this book

This book looks at the humor that artists and editors believed would have appeal in four different countries. Ian Gordon explains how similar humor played out in comic strips across different cultures and humor styles. By examining Skippy and Ginger Meggs, the book shows a good deal of similarities between American and Australian humor while establishing some distinct differences. In examining the French translation of Perry Winkle, the book explores questions of language and culture. By shifting focus to a later period and looking at the American and British comics entitled Dennis the Menace, two very different comics bearing the same name, Kid Comic Strips details both differences in culture and traditions and the importance of the type of reader imagined by the artist. 

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“Kid Comic Strips provides a snapshot of the history of comics, as well as helps today’s readers contextualize the growth of Comics Studies from nascent discipline into one of the fastest growing fields in the Humanities. … The book makes an important contribution to the field of study by providing unique historical contextualization of the lesser-explored world of kid comics. No doubt, readers will revisit Kid Comic Strips time and time again.” (Cathy Ryan, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, Vol. 42 (1), 2017)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Ian Gordon

About the author

Ian Gordon is a cultural historian at the National University of Singapore, where he is the Convenor of American Studies.  His publications include Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890-1945 (1998, 2002) the co-edited volumes Film and Comic Books (2007) and Comics & Ideology (2001), and the forthcoming monograph Superman: The Persistence of an American Icon (2017).

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