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| | The Rubber Frame: Culture and Comics |
 | | "Comics have long since overcome abiding prejudices about their cultural value, or lack of same," said D.B. Dowd, a nationally known illustrator and professor of visual communications in the School of Art, who organized The Rubber Frame with M. |
 | | The Visual Language of Comics from the 18th Century to the Present examines a variety of formal, technological and commercial forerunners to modern comics. |
 | | Daniel Raeburn, publisher of the comics 'zine The Imp, surveys Two Centuries of Underground Comic Books, beginning with the work of Rodolphe Töpffer (1799-1846), the Swiss prep-school teacher whose humorous — and widely copied — narratives are generally considered the first true comics. |
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