Comments on: A Comic Alphabet https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/02/09/a-comic-alphabet/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 09 Feb 2016 18:47:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: pauline taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/02/09/a-comic-alphabet/#comment-1079516 Tue, 09 Feb 2016 18:47:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=143130#comment-1079516 How wonderful Cruikshank was, these are all brilliant, and they certainly do stand the test of time as his observation and graphic design skills are second to none. Thank you again GA. If only we had artists like this now!!

]]> By: John https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/02/09/a-comic-alphabet/#comment-1079510 Tue, 09 Feb 2016 14:21:03 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=143130#comment-1079510 Luv it! Still lively after all these years.

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/02/09/a-comic-alphabet/#comment-1079505 Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:37:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=143130#comment-1079505 Wonderful graphic design — it has survived all these times!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Richard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/02/09/a-comic-alphabet/#comment-1079501 Tue, 09 Feb 2016 10:41:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=143130#comment-1079501 Perhaps an early image of frotteurism in Singing?

]]> By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/02/09/a-comic-alphabet/#comment-1079499 Tue, 09 Feb 2016 09:22:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=143130#comment-1079499 Wonderfully humorous drawings. I also love them for how they show the society of the day and their pre-occupations. I now know who Xantippe and Edward Bright of Maldon were!

]]> By: John Barrett https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/02/09/a-comic-alphabet/#comment-1079497 Tue, 09 Feb 2016 08:13:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=143130#comment-1079497 I liked the lead illustration the author with the funny legs. The pics are so good, with clever layout/text and vibrant colours from etched plates, then printing pulls which are at there best. They show the costume and attitudes of the period, we can learn so much from these pics about life in the 19th C no photo shoots then. I think the characters ‘could be’ those from ‘The Diary of a Nobody’ Mr Pooter, Carrie, Lupin and co perhaps they are a bit later. John

]]> By: Caroline Bottomley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/02/09/a-comic-alphabet/#comment-1079495 Tue, 09 Feb 2016 07:15:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=143130#comment-1079495 How fantastic that ‘going’ is the entry for G
Zoo animals were obviously a ‘thing’
What’s going on between Isaac and John (something anti jewish I suppose?)

I bet George Cruikshank was good fun

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