Singular Sensations

What do The Family Circus , Ziggy , and The Far Side have in common? They are all single-panel comics, a seemingly simple form that cartoonists have used in vastly different ways.    Singular Sensations  is the first book-length critical study to examine this important but long-neglected mode of cartoon art. Michelle Ann Abate provides an overview of how the American single-panel comic evolved, starting with Thomas Nast’s political cartoons and R.F. Outcault’s groundbreaking Yello