Week 3: The Comic Strip

            The comic strip, in its beginning, was celebrated as an efficient, innovative, and visually pleasing method of carrying a narrative. As comic strips became known in the late 19^th century, they were used to express the jumble of unfamiliar cultures entering the United States, as well as conflict between rich and poor. 

R.F. Outcault's The Yellow Kid

            As with any form of art, comics have evolved over time. As Max Ernst was assembling collages for Une Semaine de Bonte, the Surrealist movement was taking place, in which Ernst is a key artist. The premise of the Surrealist movement was to reveal contradictions in everyday life, by way of the unconscious and subconscious.