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Thomas Rowlandson - Dr Syntax (not a comic, but influencial) (1812)
'The Little Woman, her Dog and the Peddler' (1820s) American
Heath: with speechballoons !!! (1830)
Rodolphe Töpffer - Monsieur Vieuxbois (1839)
Rodolphe Töpffer - Aubert Pirate Version (1839) and the US copy (1842)
Rodolphe Töpffer - Comparison of Tric Trac and a Dutch sequel (Prikkebeen)
Rodolphe Töpffer - Comparison of Vieuxbois and Cruikshank
George Cruikshank' - The Progress of Mr. Lambkin' - a Hogarthian sequence (1844)
Heinrich Hoffmann - Struwelpeter (1845)
Esquire Brown
Grandville (1847)
Alfred Crowquill - Panto (1849)
Richard Doyle (1850)
John Leech - Mr. Briggs (1850)
John Leech - Noddy (1855)
John Leech - various comics (1855)
John Tenniel - Mr Piper (1853) (the illustrator of 'Alice in Wonderland')
John Tenniel - Mr Spoonbill (1855)
Lobrichon (1856)
Chinks 'Mr. Hardy Lee - His Yacht' (American, 1857)
Die illustrierte Welt (German magazine, 1858)
Wilhelm Busch - The Little Honey Thieves (1859)
Wilhelm Busch - The Virtuoso (1865)
Wilhelm Busch - The Warm Bath (1865)
Wilhelm Busch - The Flea (1865)
Wilhelm Busch - The Baber and his clever dog (1865)
Wilhelm Busch - The Hollow Tooth (1865)
'Tom's Holiday' (1864)
Merryman's Monthly (Magazine) 'The Flying Machine' (1865)
Charles Keene 'Miss Lavinia Brounjones' (1866)
Charles Ross & Marie Duval - 'Ally Sloper' (1867)
18-39
40-61
62-82
83-103
104-125
126-148
149-176
177-205
George de Maurier 'The Philosopher's Revenge'(1869)
Georges Chicki (1870)
Livingstone Hopkins (1875) - 'Professor Tigwissel'
Advertising Comic - 'Blackwell's'
Advertising Comic - 'Hold Fast'
Frank Beard (1889)
Dalrymple (1889)
Opper (nine comics before 1893)
A.B. Frost (1893)
Doës (1890s)
Howarth (1894)
Bellew (1895)
'Harper's Round Table', Annual 1897
The boys magazine Harpers Round Table had a little wordless strip on many of its back covers.
Here are those from the year 1897, when regular comics were already being developed in the newspapers.
72 - W. M. Goodes - 'The Funniest Thing he ever saw'
176 - Gustav Verbeek - 'The Hunter's Strategy'
280 - - How Tommy made one Skate do
544 - - An African Bridge
568 - R. F. Bunner - 'An Event that was not on the Programme'
640 - W. C. Kemble - 'An Ingenious Escape'
736 - O. Herford - 'The Bow Legged Admiral and the Educated Dog'
760 - - 'The Stolen Cigar or The Monkey who got it in the Neck'
784 - - 'An Interesting Article'
808 - P. Newell - Policeman / Fourth of July
832 - A. S. Daggy - 'A New Use for the Japanese Umbrella'
864 - - 'An Unintentional Exchange'
888 - O. Herford - 'The Lost Joke Recovered by Xray'
912 - - 'The Adventures of a Cartwheel'
936 - - 'How a Famous Hunter Won a Reputation'
960 - - 'A New Wag to an Old Tale'
1008 - - 'A Cat Tale'
1032 - F. T. Richards - 'It's an Ill Wind Blows Nobody Good'
1056 - - 'How the Dromedary Became a Camel'
1080 - - 'A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed'
1104 - C. J. Budd - 'The Bill Poster's Revenge'
1128 - F. T. Richards - 'The Fakir and the Prestidigitateur'
1152 - F. T. Richards - 'An Occidental Transformation'
1176 - - 'The Patent Sure-to-arrouse Alarm Clock'
1200 - - 'The Artist and his Model'
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Early Comics in print (on paper !!!)
1907 article about Sunday Comics
Other websites featuring early comics (part of my 'Comic Links' section)
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