1.0Make 'Em Laughhttps://www.pbs.org/wnet/makeemlaughcolin fitzpatrickhttps://www.pbs.org/wnet/makeemlaugh/author/colin-fitzpatrick/History: Cartoons | Make 'Em Laugh | PBSrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="uc3o9sBswl"><a href="https://www.pbs.org/wnet/makeemlaugh/comedys-evolution/history-cartoons/26/">History: Cartoons</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.pbs.org/wnet/makeemlaugh/comedys-evolution/history-cartoons/26/embed/#?secret=uc3o9sBswl" width="600" height="338" title="“History: Cartoons” — Make 'Em Laugh" data-secret="uc3o9sBswl" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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The reason, perhaps, why most animated cartoons are funny is because it’s in their pedigree; they came right out of the funny papers. Windsor McCay was one of the most successful and technically brilliant newspaper cartoonists of the early twentieth century. His baroque inventive Little Nemo in Slumberland series galvanized readers across the country as […]