"Vulgarizing American Children": Navigating Respectability and Commercial Appeal in Early Newspaper Comics

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dc.contributor.advisorPetrik, Paula
dc.contributor.authorSuiter III, Ralph D.
dc.creatorSuiter III, Ralph D.
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-28T10:20:49Z
dc.date.available2016-09-28T10:20:49Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractBetween the first appearance of the Sunday newspaper comic supplement in 1895 and the early 1920s, the status of the comic supplement in the field of cultural production was being questioned and navigated by publishers, editors, cartoonists, and the reading public. Looking at the first years of the comic supplements, this dissertation argues that the early supplements, as emulations of comic weekly magazines such as Puck and Life, may have been an attempt to make the yellow journals more palatable to a middle-class audience. This attempt became moot after the “second moral war,” a campaign against the yellow journals undertaken by more “respectable” newspapers in 1897, which made comics a metonym for yellow journalism.
dc.format.extent246 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1920/10409
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsCopyright 2016 Ralph D. Suiter III
dc.subjectAmerican history
dc.subjectArmory Show
dc.subjectComics
dc.subjectMoral Panics
dc.subjectNewspaper Comics
dc.subjectProgressive Era Women's Groups
dc.subjectYellow Journalism
dc.title"Vulgarizing American Children": Navigating Respectability and Commercial Appeal in Early Newspaper Comics
dc.typeDissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineHistory
thesis.degree.grantorGeorge Mason University
thesis.degree.levelPh.D.

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