The 150th Anniversary of NOT The First Newspaper Comic Strip
From American Studies a couple days ago: The September 11, 1875 edition of the Daily Graphic illustrated newspaper featured “Professor Tigwissel’s Burglar Alarm,” a series of 17 images from the young cartoonist Livingston “Hop” Hopkins (1846-1927) that constitute the first newspaper comic strip in American history. I haven’t been able to find a complete digitization […]