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Gene Luen Yang

If it turns out I’m missing anyone, please inform me post-haste.

While Google certainly doesn’t need the cash and clicks, I think it’s a great move to get some talent to the rest of the world.  Most of my favorite artists I discovered through word-of-mouth, but if someone out there gets into one of our great local’s works through Google, so be it.

I don’t mean to sound as if they’re all local kids done good (see Yang’s work in the N.Y. Times, for example), but it just makes me happy to see the work getting out.  Yay hooray!

The magazine had served as a model for Shanghai’s most popular, and historically most important, illustrated newspaper in the late 1800s, the Dianshizhai Pictorial (1884-1898), and Punch‘s renowned cartoons also influenced the development of Chinese cartooning that experienced a “golden age” in 1930s Shanghai.

Punch’s website is visually stimulating because it features a big online collection of cartoons and comics that have been published in Punch. Educational features include a history of the magazine and a history of cartoons. Check it out here: Punch online

Also, many of the old issues of Punch can be accessed through Project Gutenberg, a fantastic online resource for e-publishing. In fact, the first volume of Punch is the best one to read for an introduction to this important magazine: first volume of Punch