Overview
- Explores the history and development of the British daily newspaper strip
- Covers the impact of the world wars, the anti-comics campaigns of the 1940s and 50s and changes to British publishing
- Fills in a crucial section of publishing history that has been largely overlooked
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels (PSCGN)
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Keywords
- Comics studies
- British culture
- Visual culture
- Newspaper studies
- Nineteenth century
- Twentieth century
- Popular press
About this book
This book explores the history and development of the British daily newspaper strip. It considers such strips within their political, commercial and societal contexts and fills in a crucial section of publishing history that has been largely overlooked by both comics and newspaper studies to date. Beginning with an examination of the role of the image within British publishing in the final decades of the nineteenth century, the book moves on to explore the arrival and development of the first daily strips. It considers the links that bound these strips to surrounding cultural forms, their relationship to their host newspapers, and their position within the wider structures of the emerging popular press. Subsequent chapters cover a range of topics including the impact of the world wars, the anti-comics campaigns of the 1940s and 50s, and how changes to British publishing and wider society shaped the newspaper strips of the final decades of the twentieth century. Culminating with a discussion of the way in which strips became established within the broadsheet press from the 1960s, the book builds to provide a detailed overview of the twentieth century development of this most neglected cultural form.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Adam Twycross is a Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, UK and has taught extensively in the fields of animation, comics studies, VFX and computer games. His research focuses on newspaper strips, comics for non-juvenile audiences and the lost histories of British comics creators. British Newspaper Strips is his first book.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: British Newspaper Strips
Authors: Adam Twycross
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-61212-1Due: 11 August 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-61215-2Due: 11 August 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-61213-8Due: 11 August 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-6370
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Illustrations: 32 illustrations in colour