music and tales
One character who was an early fixture of penny dreadfuls was Spring Heeled Jack. He would leap in out of nowhere, slap you, cop a feel, or rip your dress and then leap away. He could leap over tall shrubbery, […]
From 1830 to 1870, the exact time the macabre and violent incarnations of the penny dreadful were being published, otherwise known as penny bloods, a complementary form of theater was also taking place, Penny Gaffs. The penny gaff alludes to […]
For decades, since their conception in 1832, Penny Dreadfuls, 8 pages of lurid tales printed on cheap paper and sold for a penny, specialized in highly gruesome material. For the first 10 years or so there was a fair amount […]
The comic book probably remains the dominant medium for fanciful, fantastic literature pumped out industriously for youth consumption. Actually if you ask me, the comic book has been replaced by the video game, but if we stick to just literature it’s the […]
Tragedy tomorrow. Comedy toNIGHT! Let’s have fun. In 2003 DC comics did a two issue story in which their popular Justice League characters were reimagined as steampunk. In the story, Superman lands on the Earth in the 1850s. He makes […]
The Atompunk hero began in the great depression. Tales of outer space, wild futures, and ray guns, always ray guns became immensely popular, thanks to the invention of the daily comic strip Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Due to the success […]
The very first actual comic strip was printed in 1837 in Switzerland by artist Rudolph Töpffer. It was clearly a series of drawing telling a sequential paneled storyline and was the only thing of its kind until 1895 when Richard Outcault began drawing The Yellow […]
It is one of the greatest comic (graphic story if you will) masterpieces of all time and is actually on display in the Louve and has been shown in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (I personally would kill to have […]