“In fact, in that particular comic, the characters aged: There are characters that go from a baby and then you watch them grow up and go off to World War II.” Kerry James Marshall, Rythm Mastr, 2018 Illustration: Courtesy the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, David Zwirner, London, and Koplin del Rio, Seattle/Photograph by Bryan Conley “That was a pioneering comic strip that would tell an ongoing story,” he says of the Frank King–created work, syndicated out of the Tribune starting in 1918. In the next panel, Samuelson and I are on the phone, and I’m asking him what was so innovative about that comic. And they’d be talking about Gasoline Alley. Above their heads you’d see enormous speech bubbles, because I surmise two such knowledgeable people would have a lot to say. Samuelson retired in January as Chicago’s first and only official cultural historian Ware is a star in the world of cartooning, known for exacting, labyrinthine books whose aesthetic intricacy complements their profound insights on the human condition. (I’d do it, but I can draw about as well as I solve math equations.) In the first panel, you’d see Tim Samuelson and Chris Ware, who are actual, real-life people. Imagine if I turned this article into a comic.
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