Description: As the first full-length study of US comic strips predating Sunday newspaper comics, excavates playful and complex contributions that upend prevailing narratives about comic strip evolution.
Review Quotes: "Beringer's repositioning of the history of comics gives a more nuanced account of the way the comics form developed in America than anything currently available. Lost Literacies is a valuable reference for the growing number of scholars studying the comic strips of later periods." --Ian Gordon, author of Superman: The Persistence of an American Icon