Abstract
On 8 April 1920, the first sports editorial cartoon by teenager Jack Nicolle appeared in Health & Strength magazine. The series of illustrations in the world’s oldest physical culture periodical captured the absurdity of ‘circus lifts’ performed at a recent W.A. Pullum lifting exhibition. The piece ignited a torrid eleven-month run of insightful, humorous, and bitingly satirical commentary often directed towards leaders of the British strength community.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 442-469 |
Number of pages | 28 |
Journal | Sport in History |
Volume | 43 |
Issue number | 4 |
Early online date | 30 Nov 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published online - 30 Nov 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2022 The British Society of Sports History.
Keywords
- History
- physical therapy
- Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
- satire
- physical culture
- cartoon