Editorial Note

This article is part of the Graphic Science Special Collection edited by Nicolas Labarre, Ernesto Priego, and Peter Wilkins.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to staff at all the archives visited for their assistance, in particular to Paul Dudman at The University of East London, and to Susan Croft and the Unfinished Histories team for such an invaluable resource. Many thanks also to my co-conspirators in the Comics & Performance Network, Damon Herd and Geraint d’Arcy, and to my colleague and friend Caoimhe Mader McGuinness, for their input and advice, and to attendees of the Joint International Conference of Graphic Novels, Comics and Bande Dessinées; 24 – 28 June 2019, Manchester Metropolitan University, Cartoon Animation: Satire and Subversion; 17 Feb 2020, University of the Creative Arts, the Experimental Archives Symposium, 26 January 2024, Kingston University, and Curtain Up! The Practice of Archiving Performance, 29 October 2024, for feedback on papers related to this research. And thanks too to Nick White, John Miers, & everyone at Kingston School of Art Comic Club for inspiring me to make comics!

Funding

Funding for archive visits for further research into Cartoon Theatre by myself and Caoimhe Mader McGuinness has been generously granted by The Society for Theatre Research, and the Visual and Material Culture Research Centre (VMCRC) at Kingston School of Art. Caoimhe and I are working on expanding this as an interdisciplinary public-facing research project.

Competing Interests

The author has no competing interests to declare.

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