Posted on: 3 March 2014

Digital Rare Book:
Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray
By Thomas Wright and R.H.Evans
Published by Henry G. Bohn, London - 1851

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Image:
James Gillray
after James Gillray
hand-coloured etching, (circa 1800)

© National Portrait Gallery, London


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May actually be the inventor of the ingenious " Speech Balloon" in caricature, so crucial in the creation of the Comics genre, some decades later. James Gillray and George Cruikshank were prolific users of the speech balloon. Probably the earliest. Scott McCloud somehow didnt acknowledge this in his comic on comics.

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