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A tale of Arthur Burdett Frost dated 1881.. Comics in the United States originated in the early European works. In 1842, the work Histoire de Mr. Vieux Bois by Rodolphe Töpffer was published under the title The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck in the U.S. [3] [4] This edition (a newspaper supplement titled Brother Jonathan Extra No. IX, September 14, 1842) [17] [18] was an unlicensed copy of ...
October 6 – American Library Association founded in Philadelphia. November 7 The 1876 presidential election ends indecisively with 184 Electoral College votes for Samuel J. Tilden, 165 for Rutherford B. Hayes, and 20 in dispute. The new president (Hayes) is not decided until 1877.
The Puck Building in Manhattan, New York City. Puck was the first successful humor magazine in the United States of colorful cartoons, caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day.
The popularity of the character swiftly enshrined superhero comics as the defining comics genre of American comic books. The genre lost popularity in the 1950s but re-established its domination of the form from the 1960s until the late 20th century. In Japan, a country with a long tradition of illustration, comics were hugely popular.
June 6 – The Association of Medical Officers of American Institutions for Idiotic and Feebleminded Persons, now known as the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities was founded when several directors led by Édouard Séguin, [10] inspired by Centennial events met to improve the lives of those with disabilities.
In 1869, Schwarzmann began working for the Fairmount Park Commission, which administered the site of the 1876 Centennial Exposition. It is one of the great urban parks of the United States; its importance in landscape history was surpassed only by Central Park. Schwarzmann was the chief architect for the Centennial Exposition, designing ...
Japanese comics are generally held separate from the evolution of Euro-American comics, and Western comic art probably originated in 17th-century Italy. [6] Modern Japanese comic strips emerged in the early 20th century, and the output of comic magazines and books rapidly expanded in the post-World War II era (1945)– with the popularity of ...
One leading analysis of American humor, the 1931 book American Humor: A Study of the National Character by Constance Rourke, identified the character of the "Yankee" as that first American comic figure, the first widely accepted American character that the nation could find funny, make fun of and even export for the amusement of the world – a gangly traveler who told stories, played ...