Vulgar in Design and Tawdry in Color: The Origin of Comic Books in the Platinum Age 

What about "Age of resistance"?

@@gearmachine8454 Age of the Platinum Resistance

The Palladium age

“The Renaissance”

@@gearmachine8454 not even close. I blame movies for overusing that kind of gravitas.

@@OnDavidsBrain "insert butt hurt remark here"

@@Chandasouk wait, when did he say a "butt hurt remark"?

@Shill for Science lolcat can haz superior meme language status plz?

SJW will call him Racist, by saying He's a Wh*te Kid using the Wrong Color as his name.

@Clark Bint Not Murican-centric enough for him.

@Clark Bint This video almost ignored the UK that started the comic industry.

@@Gambit771 Chris is a cool guy, he made a lot of episodes about non-american comics. I think it's very possible he might do one on scottish comics

@@Gambit771 Spain had "Auca", moral lessons in pictures with the text in verse, when Britian still had text-only penny dreadfuls (though I count those as part of comics too. Even Ally Sloper was at least half text). The actual origin of comics cannot be nailed down to just one country, many elements flowed together / were invented seperately in different places in a time when long-distance travel was rare.

What about William Blake's works? I guess it isn't really a comic but I think it is.

This is because in the anti comic movement the activist involved seen newspaper comics as cultured and comic books as pop culture trash.

The history of comics in other countries is usually ignored too... unless it's a manga fan, then they know "all about*" Japan and nothing about their own country. *-Ukyo-e prints started in 1600 and then in 1947 Tezuka published Treasure Island. There were no intermediate stages.

It's because such comics were either aimed politically or for juveniles. Pulp comics were popular with young men too and just predate the Golden Age. In the UK, we had many comics too from DC Thomson (my favourite one still survives: the Beano). Even our bestselling comic 2000AD isn't a superhero comic BUT very close in tone.

@@michaelmartin9022 The thing is that there's less information for comics of certain countries.

@@AA-lz4wq That's why research is important. There was precious little information about British proto-comics until 2013 when a huge new book called "From the Penny Dreadful to the Ha'penny Dreadfuller" was published, giving detailed information on the publishers and run lengths of a whole load of previously-forgotten juvenile publications in the UK. In an article about British comics I once wrote, I said the first British proto-comic came out in 1777, I was actually off by 50 years!

@pippin I think the adult-sized hand-marks on his shirt were unsettling. Plus he was always just milling around on the periphery, yet no one seemed to notice him. Like he was a ghost. He reminds me of one of The Doctors in Stephen King's "Insomnia"

@pippin I'm surprised people in the US haven't tried to bring him back in 2020 to appease anyone angry about.5% of the population hoarding the majority of the country's money

All I can think of now is the Yellow Kid showing up in a modern comic book as this mysterious, eldritch being dropping unsettling hints to the other characters about the origins and nature of their reality.

Yes, the yellow kid is creepy.

It's the eyes... ...he eats your eyes.

I totally agree with MrBowser here, this was a really interesting video and I too love the historical driven episodes =)

I absolutely agree with you. Windsor McCay, in particular, was a very talented visual artist well ahead of his time. His comics such as Little Nemo in Slumberland and Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend are brilliant works of art. For those looking for easy entry, I'd suggest the 1989 animated movie of Little Nemo as a sumptuous visual feast based on his intricate art. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wRs4Y3Kzdt0.html

@@bfdidc6604 Thanks for the link! I'm going to check it out in a few.

Blow me down! Popeye debuted in comic strips in 1929 and cartoons were first made with him in 1933. It wasn't until 1946 that original comic books were put out with Popeye. There had been Popeye comic books before, but they generally reprinted old Newspaper Sunday pages.

Popeye part of the Platinum age of comicbooks nice.

Was that the 1946 hardcover collection? I found that in my grandfather's basement at age 15 and treasure it to this day. ( I have many other Krazy Kat books also,including a hardcover from 1969 and many trade-paperbacks with Krazy Kat Sunday pages.)

@@richardranke7878 It was this one: i.pinimg.com/736x/97/f0/12/97f0127ccd040b164cea87879c33efe7.jpg

Another good example of how comic book culture became part of the American lexicon - thanks for sharing this. "The Funnies" is an example of how people would make familiar certain aspects of popular culture. The moving pictures became "the movies", which evolved into "the talkies" when sound technology was added. "The funny papers" did specifically refer to the comic strip page, but was also used jokingly to refer to the entire newspaper. Even then, people were wary of the veracity of the news, often advising each other not to believe everything they read in the papers. The jovial farewell "see you in the funny papers" (famously used in the 1946 film "It's a Wonderful Life") is both a glad tiding that something hilariously straight out of the comic books will come your way, and a softened version of the more ominous "you see in the papers" as in you'll be involved in a crime that get your name printed in the newspapers.

Agree 100% . Characters were so well known that every medium from stage plays , movies , radio and tv presented adaptations of them. Stage plays as far back as the 1920s were produced about them. The first reported cosplay was by a guy attending a masquerade party and going as Mr Skygack from Mars, a popular single panel character that has been called the first science fiction comic strip. Ken Burns would have ample research material to work with to show how comic characters have an impact on society.

YES!

@@anthonyperdue3557 I tried, about 20 years ago, to contact Burns about it, and the closest thing to a bite that I got was an e-mail from one of his associate producers. The man stated that the subject had already received a lot of coverage from other documentaians. True, but they lack Burns' unique, in-depth and intimate style.

Rachel Newstead didn't Burns do one on the civil war?!

@@richpotter Yes, he did. That one is probably his best-known.

In the early 20th century in the UK there was a strip in a little kids' magazine called Pip, Squeak and Wilfred, which became the name for sets of three things as time went on. British Soldiers who survived "all of" World War one (or at least from the first major battles to the end) got three campaign medals which gained that nickname, for instance

In 1908 A.Mutt ran for the presidency and Little Jeff was his running mate. I told that to someone who replied,"We've got a Mutt & Jeff government now."

It's the Yellow Kids way of saying 'golly gee', which is an expression of surprise. Kind of like how Homer says D'oh with disappointment.

HashbrownMashup It does indeed. But, I bet a lot of kids would have loved to have their own Hobbes doll.

Honestly

SUNDAY MORNING RAIN IS FALLING.

Henry is a perfect example of the archetypical sequential art that is the comics. Minimalist, no word balloons, and narrates through pantomime.

Theatre started it first to plan out complicated scenes. then was brought over to film as a tool to reduce costs, as you would could work out any pointless shots. Comics starting to use panels matches the rise in popularity of film and probably because the creators noticed that this would give them more room to tell stories.

Christopher Zubin It’s a real photo of Cinci from that year. Just having fun.

@@ComicTropes I am being _totally_ serious :) not much has changed

Same here! Although I knew Palooka thanks cartoon characters using the name as insults like Popeye, Tom n Jerry and other cartoons.

I was a 70's kid & yeah, same thing.

The only time I've heard of Buster Brown was in an episode of The Simpsons. It was also in that episode they mention another comic from that era, Mutt and Jeff.

In Pulp Fiction (1994) Vincent Vega (John Travolta) dismissed Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) with the line, "You ain't my friend, Palooka". The name "Palooka" implied that Butch is an inferior boxer, and is anachronistic, since the insult can only be understood by someone from the 50s. Also, it hardly describes the comic character Joe Palooka, who is a heavyweight boxing champion.

James Black “Episoide” thats how Popeye would have said it! Yehehehe.