19th Century Quebec comics

j attends! (anonymous, 1883), oldest known comic strip using speech balloon



pour un dîner de noël (raoul barré, 1902), first comic strip appear in daily quebec newspaper. barré demonstrates interest in movement, develop later pioneer in animation

caricatures have appeared in newspapers in quebec since @ least 18th century. political poster using speech balloons 1792 has been attested. anonymous, one, titled la ménagerie annexionniste , william augustus leggo francophone use of speech balloons. speech balloons thereafter became more common in caricatures , advertising, , humorous , satirical publications proliferated.

by end of century, 1 buy compilations of these cartoons , illustrations—the roots of comic albums in quebec. between 1878 , 1884, henri julien published 2 books of political caricatures, l’album drolatique du journal le farceur. in 1900, morissette published petit chien sauvage et savant, , in 1901 raoul barré put out en roulant ma boule. following this, number of cartoonists increased in newspapers in quebec city , montreal.

what has been called first comic strip in quebec appeared in 1866. woodcut serial strip called baptiste pacôt , has been attributed sculptor jean-baptiste côté. number of other pantomime or captioned strips appeared throughout rest of century. in 1902, raoul barré drew captioned eight-panel strip, pour un dîner de noël , first known strip appear in daily quebec newspaper. barré created strip called noah s ark in 1912 new york-based mcclure syndicate, brought la patrie next year in french. after moved animation, becoming innovative pioneer in field.

hector berthelot cartoonist , publisher of le canard, berthelot started running satirical material signed père ladébauche ( father debauchery ) starting in 1878. berthelot bring ladébauche him newspaper newspaper, , in 1904, joseph charlebois s comic strip version of le père ladébauche debuted in la presse, popular strip last until 1957. le canard published works of number of other notable cartoonists, such henri julien, , there oldest known comic strip using speech balloon appeared, unsigned strip printed on 22 september 1883.