Spectacular Failures in Nineteenth-Century US Magazine Comics.

The article discusses the history of comic strips published in magazines in the U.S. during the 19th-century. Topics include the appearance of sequential and multi-panel comic strips in U.S. magazines from 1840s to 1930s, the growth experienced by comic strips with their prominence in folio-monthlies such as "Yankee Notions" from 1850s-1870s, the reason early American comic strips pose challenges for critics and the significant contribution of humor magazines to the development of early comics.