The comic history of the United States : from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present
The Comic History of the United States is an 1870 Boston comic history by John D. Sherwood with drawings credited to Harry Scratchly, aimed at general readers and assembled as a satirical retelling of American events from before Columbus onward. Its pictures are pen-and-ink caricatures printed as full-page plates, with crowded groups, exaggerated faces and large-headed figures, and a designer could take from them a model for dense humorous crowd scenes and caricatured period costume.
