The Origin of Comics, From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay Dechanique and deserves a place beside

and deserves a place beside it on the shelf

With its trademark pink cover and large size

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Milk in the batter

And how hard would it be to domesticate a giant wombat

The Origin of Comics, From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay Dechanique and deserves a place besideBy Thierry Smolderen, translated by Bart Beaty & Nick Nguyen. Published by University Press of Mississippi. Hardcover, 168 pages, Text with Colour and B&W Comics, 2014. In English for the first time, a foundational text that places the beginning of comics well before Rodolphe Tpffer In The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay, Thierry Smolderen presents a cultural landscape whose narrative differs in many ways from those presented