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to submit to the restrictions of the cca though i repeatedly asked for a copy of the extant cca code itself during that brief debacle none was provided and it seemed despite the fact that dc honcho and my former kubert school instructor dick giordano was dc s rep on the cca nobody at dc comics actually had a copy of the then extant cca code to send me finding this perverse process fascinating and loving horror comics anyway i spent much of the next five years researching and collecting pre code horror comics the fruits of that research and collection became my traveling slide lecture journeys into fear which i debuted as a one hour talk at necon an annual july gathering of horror writers that i attended faithfully from the late 1980s until 1999 and which i sorely miss being part of in the summer of 1988 or 89 i expanded the lecture into a two hour plus illustrated presentation that was eventually presented in over 60 venues throughout the 1990s in the u s and abroad often as fund raising events for the comic book legal defense fund along with presenting the lecture at my own expense as a cbldf fundraiser during the mid 1990s spirit of independence tours these venues included the copenhagen comic art library in copenhagen denmark the university of connecticut storrs connecticut utica college utica new york duquesne university pittsburgh pennsylvania the 2nd and 3rd annual world horror conventions the san diego comics convention marlboro college marlboro vt bennington college bennington vt henderson state university arkadelphia arkansas fantasia film festival montreal quebec canada and many others in 1999 journeys into fear was expanded into a one week seminar for smith college in northampton ma though i pitched journeys into fear as a book proposal numerous times over the decade there was no interest from publishers i m glad the times have changed srb https schulzlibrary wordpress com 2010 11 21 s r bissette on pre code horror comics collections part 1 feed 3 1546 srbissette fourcolorfear swampmonsterwolverton corpsethatcametodinner weirdmysteries5cvr estranhomundozedocaixao superman cvr horrorcomicsof1950scvr survey 1 comic strip essays melanie gillman on polly and her pals https schulzlibrary wordpress com 2010 11 17 survey 1 comic strip essays melanie gillman on e2 80 9cpolly and her pals e2 80 9d https schulzlibrary wordpress com 2010 11 17 survey 1 comic strip essays melanie gillman on e2 80 9cpolly and her pals e2 80 9d comments wed 17 nov 2010 21 50 38 0000 http schulzlibrary wordpress com p 1534 continue reading note this is the sixth in a series of essays written and in this case drawn by the current class of 2012 for survey of the drawn story i ccs s comics history class they are posted here in approximate chronological order of when their chosen subjects comic strips were either first published or in their heyday these were class assignments and should be enjoyed in that context these are not necessarily indicative of the work the individual artists writers would do in paid professional venues this is work assigned in class with a tight deadline completed while juggling many other class assignments that said it is all of high caliber or we would not be sharing it with you here enjoy students have the option to either write an essay or to draw their essay in comics form this is the first of the comics format essays we re presenting enjoy there are more to come survey i instructor stephen bissette has added the author info and further reading notes after this comics format essay note to enlarge these comics pages for easier reading just click on the image itself to open larger scans in another window ________________________________________________ the above is 2010 melanie gillman all rights reserved it is posted with permission ________________________________________ about the author student melanie gillman s blog website contriveathon is here and it s full of art writing comics links and more explore and enjoy melanie also has shared her comics online at sub scribe here s the link and at coloredchalk com here s that link among others ps you can also visit melanie on facebook if she chooses to friend you natch _______ further reading resources cliff sterrett s the complete color polly and her pals vol 1 1991 and the complete color polly and her pals vol 2 1991 though long out of print can still be found on amazon com and via other online venues you can presently pre order the forthcoming polly and her pals complete sunday comics 1925 1927 at amazon com too here s that link we also recommend you check out barnacle press s gallery of cliff sterrett s polly and her pals comic strips various from 1914 1936 incomplete which are free and visible online right now via this link enjoy a number of polly and her pals collections are in the schulz library s permanent collection https schulzlibrary wordpress com 2010 11 17 survey 1 comic strip essays melanie gillman on e2 80 9cpolly and her pals e2 80 9d feed 7 1534 srbissette polly1 polly2 pollyandherpalscvr pollysample survey 1 comic strip essays sean knickerbocker on mutt and jeff https schulzlibrary wordpress com 2010 11 17 survey 1 comic strip essays sean knickerbocker on e2 80 9cmutt and jeff e2 80 9d https schulzlibrary wordpress com 2010 11 17 survey 1 comic strip essays sean knickerbocker on e2 80 9cmutt and jeff e2 80 9d respond wed 17 nov 2010 01 52 32 0000 http schulzlibrary wordpress com p 1514 continue reading note this is the fifth in a series of essays written by the current class of 2012 for survey of the drawn story i ccs s comics history class they are posted here in approximate chronological order of when their chosen subjects comic strips were either first published or in their heyday these were class assignments and should be enjoyed in that context these are not necessarily indicative of the work the individual artists writers would do in paid professional venues this is work assigned in class with a tight deadline completed while juggling many other class assignments that said it is all of high caliber or we would not be sharing it with you here enjoy all illustrations and captions in this particular post were incorporated into the original essay along with captions or comments in brackets like this by the survey i instructor stephen bissette to enhance this public post as were the author info and further reading notes after the essay and author s footnotes ________________________________________________ mutt and jeff and bud by sean knickerbocker mutt and jeff by bud fisher was one of the earliest successful daily comic strips it is often cited as being the first comic strip but many have brought up the notion that bud fisher may have gotten the idea from a daily strip called a piker clerk by clare briggs which ran in the chicago american in 1903 four years before bud fisher s first strip was ever published it is also worth noting that mutt jeff was originally titled a mutt the original focus of the strip was on horse racing and gambling most of the strips followed a strict formula and featured several key tropes some of the more common tropes in a mutt and jeff strip include the classic plotz as well as characters who had their wrists bent back in such a way where their fingers jutted out to create this feather aesthetic in the hands the characters were mostly drawn in profile with an occasional three quarters view of a character s face mutt would often jump out of a window a very common composition was a broken window with mutt s feet jutting out of the window frame another common final panel for the strip would be mutt rushing to a bookie window the gesture for this panel was almost always the same all four limbs would be sprawled out the feet wouldn t be touching the ground this created a radial design around the character that really expressed movement and excitement very well bud fisher s strip was featured as a daily in the sports section of the san francisco chronicle being that mutt and jeff was one of the earliest comic strips there wasn t a comics section in any newspapers at the time a mutt was almost entirely the same joke week after week mutt would go to the racetrack and have a hunch for a certain horse he would bet an enormous amount of money on the race and then more than likely loose it all he would then have to go home and apologize to his brutish wife i think the humor of the strip really derives from observing a character do exactly what has become expected of them to do the humor comes from familiarity and comfort with the strip that isn t to say that the strip could have lasted nearly as long as it did without introducing new conflict in march of 1908 the character jeff was introduced jeff was a stout character while mutt was a tall and gangly character many have said that this duo created a genre of slapstick and vaudeville acts i do believe it s true that the strip might have inspired some similar vaudeville acts but i think it s worth noting that there is something inherently humorous about juxtaposing a tall skinny character with a short fat character there is a visceral level of humor in seeing these two images collide it s a subconscious tension that is created when this sort of thing happens other entertainers of the time may have caught on to that idea and incorporated this into their act but i don t think audience members do or have ever thought oh like mutt and jeff while seeing laurel and hardy as far as character design goes it s also a really smart move having the two main characters that have exact opposite basic features guarantees that there will never be a confusion as to who is who i think clarity is one of the great strengths of this strip mutt and jeff by bud fisher circa 1912 original art scan from http www jhalpe com media view 9 page 12 5d ________________ the strip had an unusually wide format it was originally designed to run the width of a newspaper page and be a single tier the end result is this really long and narrow strip that almost has a film reel quality to it i think this narrow format really forces the eye to move at a certain sort of fast pace almost creating this zoetrope kind of aesthetic and movement the camera is almost always static there are no close ups long shots high angles or low angles i would imagine the reason for this being that cinema was still in it s infant stage while vaudeville and theater were still more common events it s interesting to point out that comics may owe just as much to film as modern film owes to comics bud fisher used backgrounds sparingly and mainly focused on character gesture as well as dialogue besides the fact that bud fisher didn t like drawing i think it also plays to the strength of the medium comics can gave the reader an impression of an environment with just a few line strokes a little bit goes a long way and it s interesting to see this idea going almost all the way back to the beginning of the modern comic strip laziness aside fisher was right to use backgrounds sparingly not only does the eye focus on the movement of the characters but there is also never any confusion as to where a panel begins or ends bud fisher employs the method of not using gutters i would imagine he didn t use gutters mainly because gutters were uncommon for the time but it really lends to the zoetrope effect i spoke of earlier had fisher been more of a draftsman and rendered more lush environments the panels would have become muddy and the strip would have lost some clarity by 1921 bud fisher was making 4 600 a week and then decided to hire ghost artists to draw mutt and jeff bud wasn t a big fan of drawing he was more interested in attending social events and squandering his money two of the ghost artists bud fisher had hired were billy liverpool and ed mack george herriman and maurice sendak had also been assistants for fisher generations apart srb bud fisher had assistants as early as 1918 but it wasn t until 1921 that he had begun to rely on his ghost artist to do entire strips billy developed the sunday topper called cicero s cat in 1934 in 1932 ed mack had passed away which opened up a new position in the mutt and jeff studio al smith was hired in 1932 smith had worked on the strip from 1932 up until 1954 with his work signed as bud fisher fisher had passed away in 1954 and al smith began to sign the work as his own he continued to do so up until his retirement in 1980 the strip continued for two more years and was drawn by george breisacher in 1982 the strip was cancelled due to lack of interest and dwindling readership cicero s cat was an interesting strip all on it s own it was a mostly pantomime comic strip about a cat named desdemona desdemona was cicero s pet cicero was mutt s son desdemona was a pretty obscure character but it seems like it was just an excuse for billy liverpool to stretch his storyteller legs a little bit desdemona has a very similar look to krazy kat but isn t bipedal like krazy it s a miracle that the strip had lasted as long as it did the interest in the strip was waning in the late 1940 s but was given a boost in readership in the 50 s when president eisenhower praised the strip the strip regained some popularity again in the 70 s due to a nostalgia craze mutt and jeff was syndicated for 73 years the strip had passed through the hands of many different artists and the strip s style evolved over time eventually the strip s style was more identifiable as al smith instead of it s original creator bud fisher mutt and jeff and cicero strip by al smith circa 1963 ____________________ bud fisher was an innovative cartoonist in the ways of business as well fisher owned the rights to mutt and jeff and he became very wealthy because of it early on during the success of his strip bud was able to hire ghost artist to do his strips for him little is known about bud s involvement with the strip at this point in his career but i think it would be fair to say that much of the praise i give to bud fisher is misdirected in fact it s these ghost artists that probably deserve most of the credit so not only was bud a trailblazer for creator rights he was also ironically a trailblazer for the ongoing exploitation of non business savvy cartoonists all over the world in 1916 bud fisher had licensed his strip to be an animated cartoon short mutt and jeff shorts became very popular and over 300 shorts were created of mutt and jeff it was the second longest running movie serial next to krazy kat in 1918 mutt and jeff started running a sunday strip this is often cited as the point when fisher had started having assistants to help with the strip between 1918 and 1934 it is a unsure how much involvement fisher had with the strip but in 1934 it became well known fact that fisher was completely finished with the strip and relied wholly on his ghost artists frame from the animated cartoon mutt and jeff go on strike 1920 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