{"id":534,"date":"2011-03-05T10:16:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T10:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/theculture\/2011\/03\/05\/scotland-gave-the-comic-strip-to-the-world\/"},"modified":"2012-10-03T01:58:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T01:58:35","slug":"scotland-gave-the-comic-strip-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/theculture\/2011\/03\/05\/scotland-gave-the-comic-strip-to-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland Gave the Comic Strip to the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

[<\/strong>\u00a0\"Happy\" Mood:<\/strong> Happy\u00a0]<\/strong>
\nI take a break from the usual nonsense to bring you a piece of nationalistic pride (Ubalstecha style).<\/p>\n

According to an article in the Daily Mail that was sent to me by my mother-in-law, Scotland gave birth to the comic strip as we know it.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I can’t find the full text online but the first part of it, and the main gist, is quoted below.<\/p>\n

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MENTION comic strips and most Scots immediately think of Oor Wullie and The Broons<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

But it has now emerged that back in time – even before Grandpa Broon was a boy – the cartoon book genre was pioneered in Scotland.<\/p>\n

According to a documentary due to be broadcast later this year, a 19th century publication called The Glasgow Looking Glass featured the first comic strips.<\/p>\n

The BBC Scotland programme, called Scotland’s Amazing Comic Book Heroes, will claim that the periodical included such innovations as speech balloons and the use of ‘To Be Continued’.<\/p>\n

The first edition of the Glasgow Looking Glass, founded by John Watson, was published on June 11, 1825 – 16 years before London’s Punch, another contender for the title of father of the cartoon strip.<\/p>\n

The first American attempt, The Monthly Sheet of Caricatures, hit the streets in 1830.<\/p>\n

Scottish cartoonists, such as Mark Millar, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely would later become leading lights in the multi-millionpound U.S. comic book industry. In the early 1820s, Watson was working for Thomas Hopkirk, who ran a Glasgow printing firm. Together with gifted cartoonist William Heath, they decided to launch the innovative publication.<\/p>\n

The words ‘To Be Continued’ first appeared in edition two.<\/p>\n

By issue 13, it was renamed The Northern Looking Glass and expanded its circulation to Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

Word balloons were also introduced at this time.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the publication folded in June 1826.<\/p>\n

John MacLaverty, producer of Scotland’s Amazing Comic Book Heroes, said: ‘I think Glasgow’s role in the invention of the comic book should be much better known.<\/p>\n

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Apparently other papers in the UK covered the story too – here is the report from Scotland on Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Evidence to the contrary will be grudgingly received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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