Is there a good book or piece of writing on early comic strips and vaudeville?
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Replying to @DominoComics
There's stuff in Canemaker's biography of McCay and Tisserand's book on Herriman. I've touched on it here and there.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Ok thank you! It feels like early comics largely explored themselves (pre foster Caniff cinema/illustrator influence) with vaudeville as a hovering influence
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Replying to @DominoComics
I'd go further than that. Early cartoonists were -- via their chalk talks -- vaudevillians. McCay's performances with Gertie the Dinosaur is a good example -- a fusion of animation and vaudeville. Perhaps relevant that Herriman worked in a studio in movie studio.
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