The Patron Saint of Superheroes
Chris Gavaler Explores the Multiverse of Comics, Pop Culture, and Politics.
- By Chris Gavaler
- Based in United States of America
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Most recent posts
This is the third of three posts focused on the 1891 weekly run of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (here are links to the first and second). I’ve been intrigued by how much the multi-image full-page …
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper isn’t a common topic of comics studies, but as I discussed in my previous post, maybe it should be. I’m continuing to explore a batch of issues from 1891 — when …
First answer: it didn’t. Comics page layout couldn’t look like anything in 1891 because comics page layout didn’t exist yet. The term “comics” was coined in the early 1890s, as a truncation of “comic strips,” …