Decades indeed. Thomas Nast made his first cartoon in like 1860 or something.
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DharkStare@lemmy.world 10 months agoThese sorts of comics have been captioned like this for decades. I’m not sure if they were ever not captioned.
Papergeist@lemmy.world 10 months ago
GreenMario@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’ve seen some done in the 1800s. Captioned.
At this point it’s a staple of the genre.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
If anything I think they were even more obvious back then… The Troll would have had “Troll” written on their laptop and so on…
Nacktmull@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Until I read your comment I was wondering about the weirdly drawn goblin … 🤦
bug@lemmy.one 10 months ago
Definitely just a cute little goblin hanging out in the toilet, annoyed that all these chumps have rocked up and interrupted his computer time