Pothole invented the First Comic ?

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In a message dated 10/17/2003 7:44:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
eega at supereva.it writes:
The general agreement about the Yellow Kid being the first "real"
comic is based on the fact that it was the first to introduce spoken
words within the boundaries of the panel, first with the messages
on his gown or posters, and later with "proper" word balloons, rather
than confining the narration in captions, often rhyming, as it was
with Obadiah or Max und Moritz and other early european stuff.
while there may be general agreement - it is wrong... there were lots of 
proper word balloons in cartoons  and comic strips prior to the Yellow Kid....
  the Yellow Kid just happens to be the one people remembered when they were 
writing about comics...


steven rowe
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