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Currently available for free: https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/88565 Emerging mass culture in nineteenth-century America was in no small way influenced by the Yellow Kid, one of the first popular, serial comic figures circulating Sunday... more
Currently available for free: https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/88565
Emerging mass culture in nineteenth-century America was in no small way influenced by the Yellow Kid, one of the first popular, serial comic figures circulating Sunday supplements. Though comics existed before, it was through the growing popularity of full-color illustrations printed in such city papers as Inter Ocean (Chicago) and the World (New York) and the implementation of regular, weekly publications of the extra sections that comics became a mass-produced, mass-distributed staple of American consumerism. It was against this backdrop that one of the first popular, serial comic figures was born: the Yellow Kid.
Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid offers a new take on the emergence of the Yellow Kid comic figure, looking closely at the mass appeal and proliferation of the Yellow Kid across different media. Christina Meyer identifies the aesthetic principles of newspaper comics and examines the social agents—advertising agencies, toy manufacturers, actors, retailers, and more—responsible for the Yellow Kid’s successful career. In unraveling the history of comic characters in capitalist consumer culture, Meyer offers new insights into the creation and dissemination of cultural products, reflecting on modern artistic and merchandising phenomena.
Emerging mass culture in nineteenth-century America was in no small way influenced by the Yellow Kid, one of the first popular, serial comic figures circulating Sunday supplements. Though comics existed before, it was through the growing popularity of full-color illustrations printed in such city papers as Inter Ocean (Chicago) and the World (New York) and the implementation of regular, weekly publications of the extra sections that comics became a mass-produced, mass-distributed staple of American consumerism. It was against this backdrop that one of the first popular, serial comic figures was born: the Yellow Kid.
Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid offers a new take on the emergence of the Yellow Kid comic figure, looking closely at the mass appeal and proliferation of the Yellow Kid across different media. Christina Meyer identifies the aesthetic principles of newspaper comics and examines the social agents—advertising agencies, toy manufacturers, actors, retailers, and more—responsible for the Yellow Kid’s successful career. In unraveling the history of comic characters in capitalist consumer culture, Meyer offers new insights into the creation and dissemination of cultural products, reflecting on modern artistic and merchandising phenomena.
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, American Studies, Media Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Nineteenth Century Studies, and 15 morePopular Culture, Visual Culture, Comics Studies, Comics/Sequential Art, Consumer Culture, Mass culture, Newspaper History, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Mass media, Seriality, Theory of Comics, Popularity, Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, Transmedia Studies, and Popular Seriality
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Research Interests: American Studies, Media Studies, Nineteenth Century Studies, Children's Literature, Illustration, and 9 moreNineteenth Century United States, Periodical Studies, Liminality, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Children's Book Illustration, Magazines, Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, Liminality In Literature, and Palmer Cox
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This article examines the weekly supplement comics as they appeared in the American yellow press papers in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. One of the most prominent stories featured a recurring character known as the... more
This article examines the weekly supplement comics as they appeared in the American yellow press papers in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. One of the most prominent stories featured a recurring character known as the ‘Yellow Kid’. The Yellow Kid stories appeared in the Sunday editions of two competing New York newspapers: Joseph Pulitzer's World and William Randolph Hearst's Journal. While there is extensive research on Richard Felton Outcault's Yellow Kid series, the number of analyses of the ‘other’ version, the series created by George Benjamin Luks, is still fairly small. This article attempts to fill this gap.
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Research Interests: American Studies, Architecture, U.S. Progressive Era, Space and Place, Comics Studies, and 15 moreComics, Urban Studies, Comics/Sequential Art, Modernity, Mass culture, Modernism, Mass media, Theory of Comics, Urban Spaces, Urban Space, Urbanity, Cartoons, picture books, comics and sequential art, Newspaper Comics, History of Comics, and Newspaper Supplements
Research Interests: American History, American Studies, Celebrity Culture, American Culture, Journalism History, and 12 moreNewspaper History, Travel Literature, Travelogue, Newspapers, Women's Magazines, Print Culture, Urban Studies, Newspapers and Women, Jules Verne, Celebrity Studies, Newspaper, Pictures of Women In Newspapers, Around the World in 80 Days, and Nellie Bly, woman reporter
Research Interests: American History, Cultural History, Visual Studies, Nineteenth Century Studies, Popular Culture, and 14 moreVisual Culture, Stereotypes, Nineteenth-century Art, American Visual Culture, American Popular Culture, Newspaper History, Nineteenth Century, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Christmas, Santa Claus, Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, Thomas Nast, Newspaper Supplements, and Christmas Traditions
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Research Interests: Journalism, Nineteenth Century Studies, American Culture, Journalism History, Newspaper History, and 12 moreNineteenth Century, Newspapers, Women's Magazines, Nineteenth-century U.S. cultural history, Magazines, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, History of Children's Magazines, Magazine Publishing, Women's portrayal in magazines, Magazine Journalism, and Nellie Bly, woman reporter
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Research Interests: Popular Culture, Comics Studies, Comics, Comics/Sequential Art, Comics and Graphic Novels, and 10 moreSerialization, Seriality, Theory of Comics, Transmedia, English Literature, Graphic Novels, Comics Studies, Manga Studies, Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Culture, Serialism, Cartoons, picture books, comics and sequential art, Transmedia Studies, Popular Seriality, and History of Comics
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Research Interests: American Studies, Media Studies, Comics Studies, Comics, Comics/Sequential Art, and 10 moreNewspaper History, Comics and Graphic Novels, Serialization, Seriality, Theory of Comics, Ephemerality, Materialities, Newspaper, Material Culture & Materiality, and History and theory of sequential art, comics and graphic novels
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While transmediality is a recent concept, it is also a historical practice. This international symposium aims to address this historicity, with particular focus on the long nineteenth century (ca. 1780 –1920), a century that famously saw... more
While transmediality is a recent concept, it is also a historical practice. This international symposium aims to address this historicity, with particular focus on the long nineteenth century (ca. 1780 –1920), a century that famously saw the birth of the mass media and brought the "frenzy of the visible" (J.-L. Comolli 1980). Tracing the processes, economies, and technologies involved in transmedia practices and the aesthetics of expansion and transgression in the long nineteenth century will allow international experts – from media, cultural, and literary studies along with other disciplines – to spotlight specific configurations in the past and their reconfigurations in our present moment.
https://anglistik.univie.ac.at/research/conferences/nineteenth-century-transmedia-practices/
https://anglistik.univie.ac.at/research/conferences/nineteenth-century-transmedia-practices/
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Comics Studies are on the rise, but the bulk of comics research prioritizes contemporary productions , whereas comics' histories and genealogies, or preconditions of what appears as comics and other forms of graphic narratives today,... more
Comics Studies are on the rise, but the bulk of comics research prioritizes contemporary productions , whereas comics' histories and genealogies, or preconditions of what appears as comics and other forms of graphic narratives today, remain understudied. To fill the gap and to map as yet unknown territories, a new book series will be launched soon by academic publisher Rombach Wissenschaft, and this conference, organized by the series editors, is intended as a kick-off event. The book series and conference aim to revise the wide spectrum of what is now regarded as comics (including caricature, cartoons, graphic novel, etc.), broadening the view of Comics Studies not only retrospectively, but also prospectively at a moment in time when modern media identities are dissolving. We welcome in particular contributions that engage with both theories and methods employed in Comics Studies so far, and crucial disciplinary concerns of history (as specified in literary, cultural, media, or art history, and so on). While there is already a significant amount of publications that foreground representations of history in comics , our conference seeks to highlight comics-specific contributions to history. In addition to that, we invite papers that address comics from a transnational while culturally situated, perspective , without privileging national histories of the medium in the narrower sense, i.e., as confined to North American, Franco-Belgian, or Japanese publication markets. Last but not least, we call for papers that put the spotlight on the historiography of Comics Studies, in other words, the inter-and transdisciplinary research on comics as an object of analysis in itself.
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Art History, Comics Studies, and 11 moreManga and Anime Studies, Comics, Graphic Novels, Comics and Graphic Novels, Graphic Narrative, Theory of Comics, Manga, Fumetti, History and theory of sequential art, comics and graphic novels, Comics-History of Art, and History of Comics
Research Interests: American Studies, Media Studies, Nineteenth Century Studies, Narrative, Advertising, and 13 moreIllustration, Nineteenth Century United States, Storytelling, Comics, Periodical Studies, Liminality, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Magazines, Newspaper, Comic Strip, Liminality In Literature, Palmer Cox, and consumption sociology
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Research Interests: Cultural Studies, American Studies, Media Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Art, and 15 moreNineteenth Century Studies, Popular Culture, Visual Culture, Comics Studies, Comics/Sequential Art, Consumer Culture, Mass culture, Newspaper History, Entertainment, Mass media, Seriality, Theory of Comics, Popularity, Transmedia Studies, and Popular Seriality
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If one were to take a stroll through the genealogy of scholarly research papers on the medium of comics/x one would find a series of paradigm shifts. Influenced by such studies as Fredric Wertham's The Seduction of the Innocent from... more
If one were to take a stroll through the genealogy of scholarly research papers on the medium of comics/x one would find a series of paradigm shifts. Influenced by such studies as Fredric Wertham's The Seduction of the Innocent from 1954 (which in simplistic terms is a moralizing ...