fumetto!

T HE world-wide chronicling of the history of comic art continues with a 520 page “paper-brick” of a book called fumetto! 150 anni di storie italiane [150 years of Italian stories], published by Rizzoli. The book has been compiled and edited by Gianni Bono and Matteo Stefanelli.  

Among the contributors are Alfredo Castelli, Fabio Gadducci, Luca Boschi, Alberto Becattini and a group of 30 scholars and critics. Their fumetto! is, strangely enough, the first book on the early history of Italian comics ever published, deepening our understanding of the comic strip form in nineteenth century Italy. The book is available HERE.

Co-editor Matteo Stefanelli said last Tuesday:

“Our fumetto! book has 
three different streams of content:

…a cultural history of Italian comics in essays…

…profiles of 114 artists, each with a biographical side, and a focus on their style…

…an “approfondimenti” appendix section, with profiles of influential non-artists who shaped Italian comics identity, plus short essays on the intersection between comics and other cultural fields, plus case histories of the Italian export success of comics…”

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...