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Before 1900s in comics

This is a timeline of significant events in comics prior to the 20th century.

Publications and events

1833

First publication of Histoire de M. Jabot by Swiss teacher and amateur artist Rodolphe Töpffer, eventually initiating a trend of "histoires en images" (picture-stories).

1837

Histoire de M. Vieux Bois

Monsieur Crépin

1840

Monsieur Pencil

1841

Published in the U.K.: The Adventures of Mr. Oldbuck

1842

Published in the U.S.: The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck

1844

Life of Mr Lambkin - the first comic book from England, by George Cruikshank

1845

Histoire d'Albert

Histoire de Monsieur Cryptogame

1846

Le Docteur Festus

1857

Der Staatshämorrhoidarius by Count Franz Pocci - the first comic book from Germany (in the magazine Fliegende Blätter, from 1845).

1858

Turmiolan Tommin elämäkerta (The Life Story of Pernicious Tommy), a Finnish temperance society publication - the first comic book drawn by a female artist, (Alexandra Frosterus-Såltin)

1864

Bilderpossen - the first comic book by Wilhelm Busch

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1900s in comics

This is a timeline of significant events in comics in the 1900s.

1900

U.S. publications

March 11: first publication of Happy Hooligan by Frederick Burr Opper in the Hearst newspaper Sunday pages.

1904

U.S. publications

January 2: first appearance of Major Ozone's Fresh Air Crusade by George Herriman, syndicated by World Color Printing Co.

February 14: first appearance of Little Jimmy by Jimmy Swinnerton in the New York Journal.

July 24: first appearance of Little Sammy Sneeze by Winsor McCay in New York Herald.

September 10: first appearance of Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend by McCay under the pseudonym Silas, in Evening Telegram.

1905

Chinese publications

Unknown date: Journal of Current Pictorial

European publications

February 2: first appearance of Bécassine drawn by Joseph Pinchon, in La Semaine de Suzette.

U.S. publications

January 8: first appearance of The Story of Hungry Henrietta by Winsor McCay.

June 26: first appearance of A Pilgrim’s Progress by McCay.

October 15: first publication of Little Nemo in Slumberland by McCay in New York Herald.

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