Comic Strip Art of Jack B. Yeats

Michael Connerty teaches film and animation history, and visual culture, at the National Film School (Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology) in Dublin, where he is also the co-chair of the Animation programme.

“This is a valuable addition to the growing body of literature on Victorian and Edwardian British comic art. Scholars of the period and of the art form will find much to like about its content. … Connerty’s holistic approach seems to me to point the way forward for the field, not only shedding new light on British comics history, or the career of Jack B. Yeats.” (Richard Scully, Studies in Comics, Vol. 12 (2), November, 2022)

• 1. Introduction.- 2. A Life of Jack B. Yeats: His Painting, Drawing, and Illustration Work.- 3. A Brief History of the British Comic Strip 1890–1917.- 4. “Clever Jack B. Yeats”: His Work for Comics and Humour Periodicals.- 5. Crime, Adventure, and Technology: Sources in Popular Fiction and Media.- 6. Street, Stage, and Circus: Worlds of Performance and Spectacle.- 7. Conclusion: Reassessing Jack B. Yeats as a Comic Strip Artist.