March 2010
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On the Origins of Comics: New York Double-take | ...
On the Origins of Comics: New York Double-take
BRIAN BOYD
Comics can have almost no mass and yet be the most mass of mass arts: Garfield has had up to 263 million readers a day. Comics constitute a new art, just over a century old, and usually an unusually accessible one. So what can evolution add to our understanding of comics?
Evolution lets us see comics, like almost anything human or even...