Wayback Whensday – Origins of “Comic Strip”
Cartoonist Don Simpson steps on a third rail of comics research – he criticizes esteemed comics historian David Kunzle‘s use of the phrase “comic strip” in Kunzle’s various pre-histories of the 20th century comics.In “Kunzle’s Pre-History of Comics: But Is It Really? (A Snobbish 2014 Essay Reposted From Another Platform)” Simpson marks Kunzle’s bona fides: […]