Comic History

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

James Parton: Caricature and Other Comic Art, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878

William Murrell: A History of American Graphic Humor, Volume I (1745-1865), New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1933

William Murrell: A History of American Graphic Humor, Volume II (1865-1938), New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938.

Martin Sheridan: Comics and Their Creators, 1944.

Coulton Waugh: The Comics, University Press of Mississippi, 1947.

Lancelot Thomas Hogben: From cave painting to comic strip: a kaleidoscope of human communication, New York : Chanticleer Press, 1949.

Stephen D. Becker: Comic Art in America. Simon & Schuster 1959.

Jules Feiffer: The Great Comic Book Heroes. Dial, 1965.

James Steranko: The Steranko History of Comics Vol. One. Superghraphics, 1970.

James Steranko: The Steranko History of Comics 2. Supergraphics, 1972.

David Kunzle: The Early Comic Strip, [2 volumes] Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.

Jerry Robinson: The comics: an illustrated history of comic strip art, New York: Putnam, 1974.

Ron Goulart: The Adventurous Decade: Comic Strips in the 1930’s, Arlington House, 1975.

Bill Blackbeard: The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1977.

Richard Marschall: The Sunday Funnies. Chelsea House, 1978.

Richard Marschall: Milton Caniff, Rembrandt of the Comic Strip. Flying Buttress, 1981.

John Canemaker: Winsor McCay: His Life and Art. Abbeville Press, 1987.

Richard Marschall: America’s Great Comic Strip Artists: From the Yellow Kid to Peanuts. Abbeville, 1989.

Brian Walker: The Comics Before 1945. Harry N. Abrams, 2002.

Brian Walker: The Comics After 1945. Harry N. Abrams, 2004.

Dan Nadel: Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969. Abrams, 2006.

Peter Maresca: Little Nemo in Slumberland So Many Splendid Sundays. Vol. 1. Sunday Press, 2006

Robert C. Harvey: Meanwhile... a Biography of Milton Caniff. Fantagraphics, 2007

Peter Maresca: Little Nemo in Slumberland. Vol. 2. Sunday Press, 2009

John Wells: American Comic Book Chronicles 1960-64. TwoMorrows Publishing, 2012

Eddie Campbell: The Goat Getters: Jack Johnson, the FIGHT of the CENTURY, and How a Bunch of Raucous Cartoonists Reinvented Comics, IDW Publishing/Ohio State University Press (The Library of American Comics), May 1, 2018

MEXICO

Juan Manuel Aurrecoechea & Armando Bartra: Puros Cuentos : la Historia de la Historieta en México - Edited by Consejo. Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares and Editorial Grijalbo, Mexico, D.F. 1988, 1993, 1994. 3 vols.: I. 1884-1934 ; II. 1934-1950 ; III. 1934-1950.

CANADA

Alexander Ross: A Fond Portrait of those Wild Wartime Comics [article]. Maclean's Magazine 19 Sept 1964.

Michael Hirsh and Patrick Loubert, designed by Clive Smith: The Great Canadian Comic Books. Toronto: Peter Martin Associates, 1971.

Michel Ouelette: La bande dessinée québécoise est bien partie! A brief five page history of French-Canadian bd from the small press underground Mainmise. Mainmise, November 1974.

John Bell: Canuck Comics. Montreal: Matrix Books, 1986.

Carman Cumming: Sketches from a Young Country: the images of Grip magazine. University of Toronto Press, 1997.

John Bell: Invaders from the North. Toronto, Dundurn Press, 2006.

UNITED KINGDOM

Thomas Wright: A History of Caricature & Grotesque in Literature and Art. Virtue Brothers, 1864.

Graham Everitt: English Caricaturists and graphic humorists of the nineteenth century. S. Sonnenschein, 1893.

George Perry/Alan Aldridge: The Penguin Book of Comics. Harmondsworth 1967.

Denis Gifford: Stap me! The British Newspaper Strip. Aylesbury 1971.

Denis Gifford: The British Comic Catalogue 1874-1974. Mansell, 1975.

Denis Gifford: Happy Days: a century of comics. Jupiter Books 1975.

Denis Gifford: Victorian Comics. Allen & Unwin, 1976.

Peter Bailey: Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday: Comic Art in the 1880’s [article]. History Workshop, no. 16, Autumn 1983.

Denis Gifford: The International Book of Comics. Hamlyn, 1984.

Alan and Laurel Clark: Comics an Illustrated History, Green Wood, 1991.

Roger Sabin: Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels: A History of Comic Art. Phaidon, 1996.

Paul Gravett/Peter Stanbury: Great British Comics. Aurum, 2006.

Alan Clark: Edwardian Comic Papers, A Half Holiday publication, 2021

Alan Clark: The Fun Factory of Farringdon Street, A Half Holiday publication, 2021

Alan Clark: Sugar-Plums & Tootletum - The Work of C.H. Ross, A Half Holiday publication, 2021

Alan Clark: Ally Sloper – His life & Times, A Half Holiday publication, 2021

Alan Clark: Comic papers of the Platinum Age – Creators & Their Work: 1874-1914, A Half Holiday publication, 2022

PORTUGAL

Leonardo De Sà/Antonio Dias de Deus: Dicionario dos autores de banda desenhada e cartoon em Portugal. Amadora 1999.

Leonardo De Sà: O Sonho Comanda a Arte -- Considerações Oniricas Antes e Depois de Winsor McCay [article]. BDAmadora 2005.

Joao Paulo Paiva Boleo/Varlos Bandeiras Pinheiro: Le Portugal en bulles. Lisbon 2000.

SPAIN

Luis Gasca: Los Comics en Espana. Barcelona: Editorial Lumen, 1969

Antonio Martin: Historia del comic español: 1875-1939. Editorial Gustavo Gili, 1978.

Antonio Martin: Los Inventores del Comic Español 1873-1900. Collections Moebius, 2000.

Pedro Porcel: Clásicos en jauja. La historia del tebeo. Valenciana Edicions de Ponent, 2002

Pedro Porcel: Tragados por el abismo, La historieta de aventuras en España. Edicions de Ponent, 2010

TURKEY

Sanat Dünyamiz (Ed.): Çizgi roman: çiszgi, roman. Istanbul 1997.

Levent Cantek: Türkiye'de Çizgi Roman. 2nd Ed. Istanbul 2002.

YUGOSLAWIA

Slavko Dragincic/Zdravko Zupan: Istorija Jugoslawenskog Stripa. Novi Sad 1986.

AUSTRALIA

John Ryan: Panel by Panel. An illustrated history of Australian Comics.

INDONESIA

M. Bonneff: Les bandes dessinées Indonésiennes. Paris 1976.

ARGENTINA

Carlos Trillo/Guillermo Saccomanno: Historia de la Historieta Argentina. Buenos Aires 1980.

Franco Fossati: Il fumetto argentino. Genova ca. 1980.

Judith Gociol/Diego Rosemberg: La historieta argentina. Buenos Aires 2000.

Judith Gociol & José Maria Gutiérrez: La Historieta Salvaje. Primeras series argentinas [1907-1929]. Ediciones de la Flor, 2012.

LATIN AMERICA

Div.: Historietas. Milano, 1997.

BRASIL

Herman Lima: História da Caricatura no Brasil (4 volumes). José Olympio Editora 1963

Ionaldo A. Cavalcanti: O mundo dos Quadrinhos. Editora Símbolo 1977

Álvaro de Moya: História da História em Quadrinhos. Editora Brasiliense 1993 (segunda edição aumentada).

Gonçalo Junior: A guerra dos Gibis. Editora Companhia das Letras 2004 (conta a história da guerra entre dois grandes empresários depois do advento dos suplementos em quadrinhos no Brasil - Gibi é o mesmo que revista em quadrinhos)

Roberto Guedes: A saga dos super-heróis brasileiros. Opera Graphica Editora 2005.

Goida & André Kleinert: Enciclopédia dos Quadrinhos. Editora L&PM 2011 (segunda edição aumentada)

Luciano Magno: HISTORIA DA CARICATURA BRASILEIRA: OS PRECURSORES E A CONSOLIDAÇAO DA CARICATURA NO BRASIL. Gala Edições 2012

Rogério de Campos: IMAGERIA O nascimento das histórias em quadrinhos. 2015

Lancelott Martins: Catálogo de Heróis Brasileiros (2 volumes). Universo Editora Independente 2016

ITALY

Carlo della Corte: I fumetti. Milano 1961.

Leonardo Becciu: Il fumetto in Itala. Firenze 1971.

Alfredo Castelli: Eccoci ancora qui!; 1895-1919; I primi 25 anni del fumetto americano per quotidiani, 2006.

Fabio Gadducci [Ed.]: SIGNs - Studies in Graphic Narratives. International Journal for the History of Early Comics and Sequential Art. No. 1, 2007.

Matteo Stefanelli and Gianni Bono [Ed.]: Fumetto! 150 Anni di storie italiane [150 years of Italian stories]. Rizzoli 2013.

FRANCE

Champfleury: Histoire de la caricature antique. Paris, E. Dentu, 1867.

Pierre Couperie and others: A History of the Comic Strip New York: Crown Publishers, 1967.

Pierre Couperie and others: Bande dessinée et figuration narrative. Paris 1967.

Jacques Sternberg: Les Chefs-d'uvre de la bande dessinée, Paris: Éditions Planète. 1967.

Jacques Marny: Le monde étonnant des bandes dessinées. Paris 1968.

Francis Lacassin: Pour un 9e art la bande dessinée. Paris 1971.

Georges Pernin: Un Monde étrange; la bande dessinée, Paris, Éditions Clédor, 1974.

Gérard Blanchard: Histoire de la bande dessinée: une histoire des histoires en images de la préhistoire à nos jours. Verviers: Marabout Université, 1974.

Michel Pierre: La bande dessinée. Larousse, 1976.

Richard Medioni: Mon camarade, Vaillant, Pif Gadget , L’histoire complète, 1901-1994. Les journaux pour enfants de la mouvance communiste et leurs BD exceptionnelles. Vaillant Collector, 2012.

GERMANY

Günter Metken: Comics. Frankfurt am Main/Hamburg 1970.

Karl Riha: zok roarr wumm. Zur Geschichte der Comic-Literatur. Steinbach 1970.

Reinhold C. Reitberger/Wolfgang J. Fuchs: Comics. Anatomie eines Massenmediums. München 1971. Published in America as Comics Anatomy of a Mass Medium, Boston: Little Brown 1972.

Ulrich Merkl/Alfredo Castelli/Jeremy Taylor: Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. 2007.

Eckart Sackman: Deutsche Comicforschung. 2004 - 2012.

Tim Eckhorst: Rudolph Dirks; Katzenjammer, Kids & Kauderwelsch. Deich Verlag, 2012.

BELGIUM

F Fréderic Empaytaz: Les copains des votres enfance. Denoël, 1963.

Pascal Lefèvre and Charles Dierick (eds.): Forging a New Medium: The Comic Strip in the Nineteenth Century. VUB University Press, Brussels, 1998.

Thierry Smolderen: Naissances de la bande dessinée De William Hogarth à Winsor McCay. Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2009.

Thierry Smolderen: The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay. Translated by Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen. University Press of Mississippi. 2014.

THE NETHERLANDS

Kees Kousemaker/Maria Willems: Strip voor strip. Amsterdam 1970.

H. van Opstal: Essay RG Het fenomeen Hergé. Delange 1994

RUSSIA

Jose Alaniz: Komiks: Comic Art in Russia. University Press of Mississippi, 2010.

There is also a bibliographic catalogue of “Comic Strip Histories”  in French covering world comics:

Harry Morgan/Manuel Hirtz: Le Petit critique illustré. Guide des ouvrages

And:

John Lent: Comic Books and Comic Strips in the United States through 2005: An International Bibliography, 2006

*Compiled with help from Eckart Sackmann, Leonardo De Sà, Mario Lucioni, Alfredo Castelli, Thierry Smolderen, Darrell Coons, Francisco Dourado and Ron Evry. Additions welcome. To be continued...