History of comics on display at Newark Museum
Lev D. Zilbermints
Issue date: 10/3/06 Section: Life & Leisure
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The long wait is over for those wondering how comic strips and comic books got started. A visit to the Newark Museum will tell a visitor much about comics and their origins.
Drawing on numerous private collections, family collections other sources, the Newark Museum has put together a history of comics. Pen and ink drawings, in black-and-white and color, are exhibited. Fourteen of the most influential comic artists from the late 19th to the 20th century are presented at the Newark Museum, which houses the first part of the exhibition.
The Jewish Museum in New York presents the second part of the exhibit. That part consists of comic books and graphic novels from 1950 onward.
According to the Newark Museum website, 'nearly 600 original drawings, rare proofs, printed newspaper pages and graphic novels represent the work of several pioneering artists."
Artists shown at the Newark Museum include Milton Caniff , Lionel Feininger, Chester Gould, George Harriman, Frank King, Winsor McCay, Charles M. Shulz and E.C. Segar.
Artists shown at the Jewish Museum include Robert Crumb, Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Gary Panter and Chris Ware.
The popularity of comics got its start during the tabloid newspaper wars betweenJoseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst.
The "Yellow Kid" was the first color comic, published in 1897. "Mutt and Jeff" was the first daily comic strip, published in 1907. Before 1907, most comic strips were published on Sundays.
With the arrival of the super hero genre in the 1930s, the popularity of comics soared. More newspapers began publishing comic strips.
Some of these newspaper strips can be seen at the Newark Museum.
Popeye (created by E.C. Segar in 1929) , Dick Tracy (created by Chester Gould in 1931) , Terry and the Pirates (created by Milton Caniff in 1937) were some of the non-super-hero comic strips of the period. Dozens of pen-and-ink original art for these strips can be seen in the Museum.
Drawing on numerous private collections, family collections other sources, the Newark Museum has put together a history of comics. Pen and ink drawings, in black-and-white and color, are exhibited. Fourteen of the most influential comic artists from the late 19th to the 20th century are presented at the Newark Museum, which houses the first part of the exhibition.
The Jewish Museum in New York presents the second part of the exhibit. That part consists of comic books and graphic novels from 1950 onward.
According to the Newark Museum website, 'nearly 600 original drawings, rare proofs, printed newspaper pages and graphic novels represent the work of several pioneering artists."
Artists shown at the Newark Museum include Milton Caniff , Lionel Feininger, Chester Gould, George Harriman, Frank King, Winsor McCay, Charles M. Shulz and E.C. Segar.
Artists shown at the Jewish Museum include Robert Crumb, Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Gary Panter and Chris Ware.
The popularity of comics got its start during the tabloid newspaper wars betweenJoseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst.
The "Yellow Kid" was the first color comic, published in 1897. "Mutt and Jeff" was the first daily comic strip, published in 1907. Before 1907, most comic strips were published on Sundays.
With the arrival of the super hero genre in the 1930s, the popularity of comics soared. More newspapers began publishing comic strips.
Some of these newspaper strips can be seen at the Newark Museum.
Popeye (created by E.C. Segar in 1929) , Dick Tracy (created by Chester Gould in 1931) , Terry and the Pirates (created by Milton Caniff in 1937) were some of the non-super-hero comic strips of the period. Dozens of pen-and-ink original art for these strips can be seen in the Museum.
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