Pictorial Nuggets
Henderson · 1903–1904 · 41 issues
About the series
A short-lived but historically significant comic series, Pictorial Nuggets ran for 41 issues from 1903 to 1904, published by Henderson. Each issue was a compact, single-panel cartoon, offering a witty or sentimental vignette of everyday life at the turn of the century. The series is most associated with the pioneering cartoonist Fred Opper, whose clean, expressive linework and gentle humor helped define the emerging newspaper comic strip format. Pictorial Nuggets matters as an early example of the comic as a standalone, mass-market publication, bridging the gap between single-panel newspaper cartoons and the comic books that would follow.
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