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For well over 100 years, newspaper comic strips and comic books have been a source of entertainment for all ages. The wit, wisdom, absurdity, and satirical observations of comic characters have brought comfort to readers when the world has turned upside down. Scholars have remarked that in Victorian comic magazines “a relatively freer capacity to use potentially disconcerting material is to confirm that more about the real world slips through in the illustrations of the comic magazines than in those of the news magazines.” And so it goes with American comic art.
This very brief survey showcases comic art beginning with mostly European forerunners, progressing through the early days of newspaper comic strips; the golden age of the 1930s-1950s; racial integration of newspaper syndicates; women cartoonists; and those darn animals! Original comic strip panels, comic strip reprints, and books featured here are a fraction of the materials waiting to be discovered in the Schmulowitz Collection of Wit & Humor (SCOWAH).
Related programs: Thursdays at Noon Film Series
All films will be screened in the Koret Auditorium at 12 p.m.
May 1: Popeye (1980)
May 22: The Addams Family (1991)
May 29: Over The Hedge (2006)
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