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.

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

Autorentext

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.   

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Rise of the New Journalism.- Chapter 3: The Market Expands.- Chapter 4: The Birth of the Daily Mirror and the Arrival of the Newspaper Strip.- Chapter 5: 1906 to 1920: A Period of Consolidation.- Chapter 6: The Second Coming of the Daily Mirror .- Chapter 7: Jane and the Daily Mirror in the Second World War.- Chapter 8: Syndication and Sanitisation.- Chapter 9: Postwar Politics.- Chapter 10: The Birth of IPC.- Chapter 11: The Sixties Start to Swing.- Chapter 12: Sunrise.- Chapter 13: Conclusion.