Sunday, April 22, 2012

Sounding the Doom of the “Comics”



 From Current Literature, Vol. XLV, 
December 1908, pp.630-633






 From ‘The Americanization of Canada,
by Samuel E. Moffett, 1907


2 comments:

  1. we lost that battle. the Americanization thing, anyway. not the comics in newspapers battle. everyone just kind of gave up on that one about 50 years ago.

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  2. It's an interesting subject. Part of it had to do with the difference in populations but I think Canadian literature, cartoons and all suffered from an elitist attitude on the part of producers and consumers of Canadian culture. Nothing is so smug as a Canadian editorial cartoonist. Noses flew up in the air over vulgar culture like comics.

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