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The Pioneers
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A Rakes Progress
A Rakes Progress, 1755. by William Hogarth. This savage satirical print, engraved from a painting, was part of a story in sequential pictures - one of the first of its hind.
This coincided with improvements in the technology of binding, and increasingly the idea of selling 'magazines' of broadsheets bound together became more financially viable. (This was the point, then, when the basic look of today's magazines and comics was established.) The emergent Victorian industry then took a variety of directions. The result was that hundreds of different magazine titles were published on both a weekly and monthly basis.
In brief, the most mainstream of the new magazines were 'documentary' in style, and concerned with the affairs of the day. They consisted of prose articles accompanied by illustrations, and were in some ways an echo of the serious broadsheets of the Middle Ages. The most famous examples were the Illustrated London News (1842), which built up a reputation on. the basis of its eyewitness artists' impressions of home news stories and foreign wars, and the Illustrated Police News (1864), a much sleazier enterprise which traded in sensational reports and illustrations of murders and hangings (the direct descendant, in fact, of the execution broadsheets).
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