First readers absorb what's on the page read in the usual left-to-right, top-to-bottom order, before turning the comic 180 degrees and continuing all the way through to absorb the expertly-cartooned conclusion. TUDWOGV (what an acronym!) consists of the complete run of Verbeek's original series The Upside Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo (1903-1905), a series read in a two-part sequence. He went on to study art in Paris before relocating to the United States in 1900 at the age of 33, and it wasn't long before he started creating comics for several prominent publications, including the New York Herald, where he created multiple comic series over the course of about a decade. The artist was born in, and spent his childhood in Japan, the son of a Belgian missionary and his French wife. The comic's ability to be read in every direction and convey multiple meanings it's no surprise, Verbeek's style was a synthesis of several literary and artistic traditions. Introducing The Upside Down World of Gustave Verbeek, a collection of turn-of-the-last-century comic book innovation rife with 180-degree storytelling and good ol' fashioned cartoon nonsense. You're going to flip over the latest edition to GoComics.
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