The Origin of Comics, From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay Dechanique With its trademark pink cover

With its trademark pink cover and large size

no friends

asking what makes a life meaningful and where we find joy

”—Foxing Quarterly

When her mother dies

The Origin of Comics, From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay Dechanique With its trademark pink coverBy Thierry Smolderen, translated by Bart Beaty & Nick Nguyen. Published by University Press of Mississippi. Hardcover, 168 pages, Text with Colour and B&W Comics, 2014. In English for the first time, a foundational text that places the beginning of comics well before Rodolphe Tpffer In The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay, Thierry Smolderen presents a cultural landscape whose narrative differs in many ways from those presented