COMIC PAPERS BETWEEN THE WARS 1919-1939

 

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Two more volumes by prolific author Alan Clark in his Half-Holiday series detailing comic history in the UK. Comic Papers Between the Wars 1919-1939 covers  lot of ground in two small size (A5) volumes packed with illustrations, biographies, and photographs of publishers, editors, authors and writers of the period discussed. Book one covers nursery comics, vaudeville comics, film comics and the beginnings of the adventure strip with a nice section on Walter Booth’s adventure strip Rob the Rover. Book two continues with the introducing of the new technology of photogravure to such papers as Mickey Mouse Weekly and later Happy Days with much more about “the remarkable afterlife of Rob the Rover” in Norway and other countries.

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Comic Papers Between the Wars 1919-1939 Book One

Alan Clark, Half-Holiday Publishing, (December) 2022, 298pp.

Comic Papers Between the Wars 1919-1939 Book Two

Alan Clark, Half-Holiday Publishing, (December) 2022, 298pp.

Privately published and sold as a pair HERE

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The Laughs of a Nation

The Publications of 

Gerald G. Swan

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by Alan Clark

Half Holiday Publishing

2022

294 Pages

Available HERE

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The Fun Factory –

of Farringdon Street 

The Fun Factory of Farringdon Street, by UK comics historian Alan Clark (author of Comics, an Illustrated History with Laurel Clark, 1992), tells the story of Alfred Harmsworth's Amalgamated Press and the Fleetway House from 1890 to 1960, from the comics (The Funny Wonder, Comic Cuts, Illustrated Chips &c.) to the boys' story papers (Union Jack, Pluck, Magnet &c.). The book is small in size but packed with historical fact and lavishly illustrated. Only available on EBAY.

Edwardian Comic Papers (2021) is out of print now, but is a potpourri look at the publishers, editors, cartoonists and writers of the Edwardian era of comic journals illustrated with period photographs and illustrated comics like Jester & the Wonder, Big Budget, Lark's, Scraps, World's Comic, Funny Cuts &c. Features a lot of unknown fact and history including American imports by Dirks, Charles Dana Gibson, and Opper.

JKA