Sunday, July 7, 2019

Caran d'Ache –



The Father of the Comic Supplement,

The Literary Digest, Mar 13, 1909



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  1. AnonymousJuly 7, 2019 at 4:54 PM

    As it happens, I'm in the middle of indexing Caran d'Ache's Monday pages in Le Figaro in 1896 for the Grand Comics Database. He started such comics pages in the Le Journal newspaper in 1894. Caran d'Ache was also the father an early proponent of the graphic novel though he never finished the one he was working on, Maestro.

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  2. Guy LawleyJuly 7, 2019 at 11:49 PM

    Thanks very much for that, John.
    Particularly interesting that its tone re: contemporary comic supplements is so negative.
    I note that the Lit. Digest calls Caran d'Ache "one of the progenitors" of the comic supplement, and the original NY Evening Post piece suggests he is "partly responsible" for it.
    Caran d'Ache has a place in the lineage of the comic strip; the comic supplement itself, of course, has so many other 'progenitors'.
    Fascinating to see a B&W version of 'Comment on fait un chef d'oeuvre'. I was lucky enough to find a colour version in Le Figaro Illustré of 1888, posted here:
    https://legionofandy.com/2016/01/27/some-comic-strips-of-the-1880s-caran-dache-courboin-flamberge-how-their-colours-were-printed/#caran
    Interesting that the painting itself has no black outlines on the colour page and looks more abstract.
    Joseph Pennell, in 'Pen Drawings and Pen Draughtsmen' (1889; third ed. 1897) identified this (the colour page) as Caran d'Ache's best work. He referred to Caran d'Ache as a caricaturist; he didn't yet have a name for the 'comic strip'.

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