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Home arrow The Pioneers

The Pioneers
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Judge
Detail from Judge (Judge Publishing, 1888). Art: Anon. Both these famous American satirical magazines were forerunners of the modern comic.
If pictures pushed up the sales of books in the United States, they could certainly do the same for newspapers. Single-image cartoons became a feature first of all, and then proper strips: these were modest affairs at first -a few, black-and-white, limited-panel gags at the bottom of a page - but soon grew into full-colour supplements, usually between four and eight pages in length. Almost always these supplements appeared on a Sunday, and over time they became known as 'the Sunday Funnies': the term 'the comics' was similarly used in the United States to mean an integral part of a newspaper. By the turn of the century, they were a thriving genre, a situation that was reinforced by the emergence of 'strip syndicates', which could provide different newspapers all over the country with the same strips.
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