age of standardized goods. We move into our first depth-age of 
art-and-producer orientation. America is Europeanizing on as 
extensive a pattern as Europe is Americanizing.

     Where does this leave the older popular comics? What 
about “Blondie” and “Bringing Up Father”? Theirs was a 
pastoral world of primal innocence from which young America 
has clearly graduated. There was still adolescence in those 
days, and there were still remote ideals and private dreams, 
and visualizable goals, rather than vigorous and ever-present 
corporate postures for group participation.

     The chapter on The Print indicated how the cartoon is a 
do-it- yourself form of experience that has developed an ever 
more vigorous life as the electric age advanced. Thus, all 
electric appliances, far from being labor-saving devices, are new