1st Edition

Victorian Comics

By Denis Gifford Copyright 1976
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

The Victorians are usually painted as prim, proper and repressed. Yet it was in Victoria’s Britain that the comic paper was born and her subjects eagerly devoured their ‘Penny Dreadfuls’ and ‘Comic Cuts’. Originally published in 1976, this first ever compilation of Victorian comics is culled from England’s largest collection by its curator Denis Gifford. In these pages many forgotten figures of... Read more

The Comic Paper.  The Comic Hero.  The Comic Kid.  The Comic Animal.  The Comic Age.  The Comic World.  The Comic War.  The Comic Artist.  Index.

Biography

Denis Gifford