“Tin-Can Tommy The Clockwork Boy”: A case study in incompleteness for humorous effect in British children’s comics of the 1930s

This article explores the format and construct of longer humorous comics strips through the close analysis of “Tin-Can Tommy The Clockwork Boy” from D C Thomson’s The Beano Comic, a publication aimed at children and launched in 1938. This study of one specific strip argues that the use a seriality s...

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Main Author: Dona Pursall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Bourgogne 2021-12-01
Series:Interfaces
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/3472
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