With the recent increase in comics scholarship, comics anthologies have experienced a resurgence. Yale University Press’s 2-volume An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories is a great introduction to alternative cartoonists after about the mid-1950s. However, even those early pieces show only half the lineage of Western comics, leaving out the experimentalism of early practitioners of the art. Dan Nadel has taken it upon himself to recapture these hidden experiments for modern consumption.His first volume, Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969, was published in 2006. Despite the title, the book is heavy on the first thirty years of the 20^th century, with Gustave Verbeek’s 1904 series “The Upside-Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo” representing one of the earliest (and still most interesting) inclusions. The book also spotlight Charles Forbell’s 1913 strip “Naughty Pete,” along with humorists like Milt Gross and Harry Hershfeld. (Read the rest of this story.)