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Posted by electricgrandmother (Member # 2713) on :

I'm writing a story where the prevalent technology is that of the Victorian era. (Essentially steampunk.) Does anyone know what comics (as in Superman type comics), comics (as in the Sunday comics, e.g. Blondie ), and what the pulps (e.g. Spicy Detective or Weird Tales, etc.) would have been called in the late 1800's to early 1900's?

(I know they didn't necessarily exist during this time, but any ideas, or similar examples that did exist would be helpful.)

Also, if "Manga" were to be translated into English during this time, does anyone know what it would have been translated as? (The term Manga, that is, not the Manga books themselves.)

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Posted by electricgrandmother (Member # 2713) on :

As usual, for those who are interested, some interesting stuff here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics

Posted by Robyn_Hood (Member # 2083) on :

I googled "History of Comics" (in quotes) and hit something interesting:

http://www.comic-art.com/history.htm

Scroll down to: A Pictorial History of Sequential Art from Cave painting to Spider-Man, and click

Takes you here: http://www.comic-art.com/history/history0.htm

quote:
The Yellow Kid was introduced by Richard Felton Outcault in 1895. Recognized as the first "comic strip", the kid's popularity was a seminal influence to the proliferation of cartoons in American culture at the turn of the century. It also led to the coining of the term "Yellow Journalism" (see bio on Richard Felton Outcault). This drawing is by Outcault's successor on the strip, George B. Luks. ca 1897

Cartoons, i.e. political cartoons, are probably older.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/PUCK/part1.html

http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/comics.html

Posted by Survivor (Member # 213) on :

Manga is a translation of the intent of "comics", so it could reasonably be translated back into English as "comics", even though the actual term may predate the western invention of "comics" by a number of decades.