Ralph Bergengren

Ralph Bergengren was a essayist, humorist, children's poet, and critic who held a negative view of comic-strips in the early 1900s. In an 1906 issue of The Atlantic Journal, Bergengren wrote:

"[comic supplements are] humor prepared and printed for the extremely dull. . . a thing of national shame and degradation." He continued, "Respect for property, respect for parents, for law, for decency, for truth, for beauty, for kindliness, for dignity, or for honor, are killed, without mercy. . . Lunacy could go no farther than this pandemonium of undisguised coarseness and brutality. . ."