Americans participating in the 1913 Armory Show were engaging with Modernism in all sorts of subtle and interesting ways. Among these were a handful of artists whose main corpus of work wouldn’t be recognized as “art” until many years later: newspaper comic strips.
Author Archives: Tad Suiter
Tad Suiter is a PhD candidate in history at George Mason University, currently working on a dissertation about newspaper comics during the Progressive Era. His research interests include communications history, media ecology, critical race theory, and digital public history. He also works as the digital projects specialist at the Center for Local History at Arlington Public Library in Arlington, Virginia.