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"I love you, but, because inexplicably I love in you something more than you—the objet petit a —I mutilate you. This is the meaning of that breast-complex, that mammal-complex […] except that the orality in question has nothing to do with food, and that the whole stress is placed on this effect of mutilation. In the fable I read, when I was a child, in these early forms of strip cartoon, the poor beggar at the restaurant door feasted himself on the smell of the roasting meat.
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In the early part of the twentieth century the first American cartoonists were the superstars of their times. Their work was received by an adoring audience, they earned lucrative contracts and toured the country to give chalk talks to a welcoming public. Richard Felton Outcault’s "Yellow Kid," Bud Fisher’s "Mutt and Jeff," Rudolph Dirks’s "Katzenjammer Kids," Winsor McCay’s "Little Nemo," George McManus’ "Jiggs and Maggie," Sidney Smith’s "The Gumps" were all extremely popular entertainment, earning some of their creators upwards of one million dollars annually... . Read more

