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#2: May 22nd 2015 at 7:20:26 AM
I daresay so.
Newspaper comics, back in their golden age of the 1900s to 1940s, produced some terrific artists: Winsor Mc Cay, George Herriman, E.C. Segar, Milton Caniff, Al Capp... And even over the last several decades, Gary Larson, Bill Watterson, Stephan Pastis...
"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."
Prinzenick
Since: Sep, 2009
#3: May 22nd 2015 at 7:43:55 AM
The real question is how to split up the different periods. Should everything before the 1900s be lumped under one period (which would run the risk of overlooking important cartoonists or generalizing) or divided into several periods? Should the 1900s to 1939 be called the Golden Age of Cartooning as a whole, or be split into two periods (i.e. 1900s-1919, 1920-1939)? And what would come after that?
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I've been doing research on classic comics, particularly newspaper comics of the 1920s and 30s, and I believe those years were a real Golden Age of cartooning. I was wondering if it would be a good idea to start a page about that, to go alongside the superhero comic pages?
What I also wonder is whether there should be a page dedicating to early cartoonists before that time, and their precursors—there have been cartoon doodles drawn by Monks centuries ago, and certain works by Albrecht Durer and Leonardo Da Vinci are considered to be forerunners to cartooning, both the art and the medium its in? Do you guys think that's a good idea? If so, then what would be a good name for a page/pages like that?