A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

For in the beginning was the gesture… And the comic strip is the world of gesture, as the author of Mandrake the Magician knows very well.
“The Comics and Culture” (1953), in On the Nature of Media (2016), p 32
Quote #653
Year: 1953
Chapters: Body Language | Cartoons, Comics | Graphic Communication
↪ Also at #848, #2527
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