Kid Comic Strips

Ian Gordon is a cultural historian at the National University of Singapore, where he is the Convenor of American Studies.  His publications include Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890-1945 (1998, 2002) the co-edited volumes Film and Comic Books (2007) and Comics & Ideology (2001), and the forthcoming monograph Superman: The Persistence of an American Icon (2017).

1. Why Kid Comics.- 2. America and Australia: Skippy and Ginger Meggs.- 3. America and France: Perry Winkle and Bicot.- 4. America and Britain: Dennis the Menace (s).- 5. Comics Scholarship and Comparative Studies.

“Kid Comic Strips provides a snapshot of the history of comics, as well as helps today’s readers contextualize the growth of Comics Studies from nascent discipline into one of the fastest growing fields in the Humanities. … The book makes an important contribution to the field of study by providing unique historical contextualization of the lesser-explored world of kid comics. No doubt, readers will revisit Kid Comic Strips time and time again.” (Cathy Ryan, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, Vol. 42 (1), 2017)