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Γελοιογραφική εβδομάς (Comic Weekly)

· 1916

Γελοιογραφική εβδομάς (Comic Weekly)
This Greek satirical broadsheet presents multiple scenes of urban social comedy rendered in pen line—a direct descendant of the European cartoon tradition established by Hogarth, Gillray, and Daumier. The page combines vignettes of street encounters, bureaucratic confusion, and romantic mishaps among bourgeois and working-class figures, each labeled with explanatory Greek text. The style—economical linework, exaggerated facial features and body types—reflects the influence of German *Bilderbogen* picture-sheets and French caricature journals that shaped early-twentieth-century comic practice across Europe. Such multi-panel satirical sheets bridged the gap between fine-art printmaking and the mass-produced comic strip, offering serialized social observation to newspaper and periodical readers at a moment when sequential visual narrative was defining modern popular culture.

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