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This Week’s Article: George Luks, A Comics Pioneer
Posted: January 30, 2011
It is not uncommon for the output of comic strip creators who take on another’s major oeuvre to be minimised, from Leslie Turner on Captain Easy or George Wunder on Terry And The Pirates. George Luks (1866-1933) has not fared a great deal better at the hands of most comics historians, who have tended to celebrate Richard F. Outcault as the more important originator of The Yellow Kid and marginalise the contributions of Luks, his successor, who continued with his own version of Hogan’s Alley, after Outcault was lured from Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World to William Randolph Hearst’s more lucrative New York Journal. Read the full article here…
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