Kid comic strips: a genre across four countries

This work looks at the humour that artists and editors believed would have appeal in four different countries.

Ian Gordon explains how similar humour played out in comic strips across different cultures and humour styles.

He shows a good deal of similarities between American and Australian humour while establishing some distinct differences.

In examining the French translation of 'Perry Winkle', Gordon explores questions of language and culture.

By shifting focus to a later period and looking at the American and British comics entitled 'Dennis the Menace', two very different comics bearing the same name, 'Kid Comic Strips' details both differences in culture and traditions and the importance of the type of reader imagined by the artist.