Rich vs. Poor, London Riots, 1830
Above & below, two pages by artist Robert Seymour, from the December 1st, 1830 edition of the Looking Glass (issue 12), depicting the London Riot of that year. The captions and dialogue are somewhat difficult to make out on these color pages, so I’ll give them below (with punctuation added, as it is almost entirely [...]
Pre-YK Talkies: Robert Seymour’s 1830 “The Heiress”, Part 1
In today’s twin-themed installment of Women’s History Month and Pre-Yellow Kid “Talking” Comic Strips (multi-panel sequential comics conveyed via pictures combined with in-panel dialogue), we present Part 1 (of 6), of artist Robert Seymour’s March 1st, 1830 comic graphic novelette, The Heiress. Consisting of six over-sized plates/pages, each containing five+ cartoons, The Heiress at first [...]
The Looking Glass on France’s 1830 July Revolution
This past April, another of SuperI.T.C.H’s contributors posted on the events of France’s July Revolution, and the involvement of cartoons in it. Click on Caricature vs. the Censor, Part 1, to read it. The July Revolution was triggered by ordinances which into effect 180 years ago today, on July 26, 1830. Across the English Channel, [...]
