![]() ![]() ![]() As an undergraduate student and aspiring cartoonist, the book laid open most often on my drawing table was Blackbeard and Sheridan’s weighty “Smithsonian Book of Newspaper Comics.” For years I’d been led to believe by various comic book aficionados that the zenith of achievement for the medium were the EC comic books of the 1950s, but after discovering the Smithsonian book, it became all too clear to me that the real original geniuses of the medium were the pre-cinema cartoonists of the throwaway sunday supplements of a half century prior. ![]()
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