Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid

by Christina Meyer and Christina Meyer

Book Overview

Emerging mass culture in nineteenth-century America was in no small way influenced by the Yellow Kid, one of the first popular, serial comic figures circulating Sunday supplements. Though comics existed before, it was through the growing popularity of full-color illustrations printed in such city papers as Inter Ocean (Chicago) and the World (New York) and the implementation of regular, weekly publications of the extra sections that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814255604
• ISBN13: 9780814255605
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"