Overview
- Argues for a reassessment of Yeats as a professional comic strip artist during a twenty-five year period prior to his success as a painter
- Outlines his central position at a number of London-based comic publications, such as Comic Cuts and The Funny Wonder, which sold in the hundreds of thousands every week, and interrogates the absence of this material from art-historical and biographical accounts of his career
- Centres on a critical evaluation of the long-overlooked characters that Yeats designed, such as the Conan Doyle parody Chubblock Homes, the performing horse Signor McCoy, and numerous other popular series of the period
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels (PSCGN)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This monograph seeks to recover and assess the critically neglected comic strip work produced by the Irish painter Jack B. Yeats for various British publications, including Comic Cuts, The Funny Wonder, and Puck, between 1893 and 1917. It situates the work in relation to late-Victorian and Edwardian media, entertainment and popular culture, as well as to the evolution of the British comic during this crucial period in its development. Yeats’ recurring characters, including circus horse Signor McCoy, detective pastiche Chubblock Homes, and proto-superhero Dicky the Birdman, were once very well-known, part of a boom in cheap and widely distributed comics that Alfred Harmsworth and others published in London from 1890 onwards. The repositioning of Yeats in the context of the comics, and the acknowledgement of the very substantial corpus of graphic humour that he produced, has profound implications for our understanding of his artistic career and of his significant contribution to UK comics history. This book, which also contains many examples of the work, should therefore be of value to those interested in Comics Studies, Irish Studies, and Art History.
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About the author
Michael Connerty teaches film and animation history, and visual culture, at the National Film School (Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology) in Dublin, where he is also the co-chair of the Animation programme.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Comic Strip Art of Jack B. Yeats
Authors: Michael Connerty
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76893-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76892-8Published: 31 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76895-9Published: 01 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-76893-5Published: 30 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-6370
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 283
Number of Illustrations: 69 b/w illustrations
Topics: Comics Studies, Arts, British Culture