Friday, April 2, 2010

Digital Comics

An illustration featuring  the central image of a man in work clothes hauling a bucket, surrounded by the title "The Fortunes fo Ferdinand Flipper." Around him are several smaller images of people engaged in various activities, such as fishing and bathing. A long secondary title is also included.Two important early comic books from our collections are now available digitally through the efforts of the Library's digital production team:  The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck (1842) the first graphical novel published in the United States, originally published in French in 1837 as Les Amours de M. Vieux Bois; and The Fortunes of Ferdinand Flipper (185?), the first graphical novel written in the United States.  Both digitized comics will be used by students this term in English 67: Graphic Novels.
A two-panel comic illustration, the first featuring an outdoor scene of a man watching a woman some distance from him. It is captioned "Mr. Oldbuck's first sight of his lady-love." The second image shows him leaning against a tree, captioned "Mr. Oldbuck beholds her vanishing in the distance."
To see the good old fashioned paper copies, ask for Rare Book NC1659.T58 A6213 1840z and Rare Book NC1420.F68.

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