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Home arrow The Pioneers

The Pioneers
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Puck
Cover, Puck (Keppler and Schwarzmann, 1891). Art/script: CJ Taylor.
In the United States, comics followed a quite different evolutionary path. Here, the main precursors to the form were newspaper strips rather than satirical magazines. This is not to say that there were not some similarities to the British experience: as we have seen, America had her own Punch-like publications, such as Puck, Life and Judge, and there were also equivalents to the Illustrated London News and its ilk, such as the remarkable Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, which carried battlefield sketches of the Civil War plus drawings of murders and disasters. Additionally, although in Britain the tradition of book illustration was certainly an influence on comics, in the States the impact was profound: in particular, Mark Twain was a believer in the power of pictures, and selected various artists to illustrate his novels, which in turn became extremely popular.
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