From: Hollis Rudiger <hmrudiger>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:47:13 -0500

According to Philip Crawford's book "Graphic Novels 101: Selecting and using graphic novels to promote literacy for children and young adults", here are some key dates:

1895: "R F Outcault's Yellowkid became the first successful comic strip character in America" 1930's: "comic strips had grown in popularity and were a regular feature in America's newspapers." 1978: Will Eisner coins phrase Graphic Novel*

(*NB, although I have heard from other sources which I can't put my finger on that Eisner did NOT create this term....)

Katzenjammer Kids was 1897...

Mutt and Jeff, the first daily, was 1908



Hollis Rudiger, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center University of Wisconsin-School of Education 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706

hmrudiger at education.wisc.edu Voice: 608&3930 Fax: 608&2I33 www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/

In a message dated 4/13/04 5:31:30 AM, edinger at dalton.org writes:

<< Go back to the early comics (hmmmm....anyone know

what is the earliest comic? Is it related to chapbooks?): Krazy Kat, the

Katzenjammer Kids (spelling?), >>

The first comic may have been Wilhelm Busch's MAX UND MORITZ. From it came the Katzenjammer Kids in the U.S. Sharon Chmielarz

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