The Telegraph has a short preview of Sara Lodge’s forthcoming book, Inventing Edward Lear (Google Books).

neuvièmeart 2.0: la revue de la Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l’image has an article on nonsense in comics, mostly French. You can read my essay on Verbeek and the nonsense tradition from Academia.edu.

And while discussing 19th-century comics, why not read these twon on Nadar?

Les bandes dessinées de Nadar, by Antoine Sausvert, at Töpfferiana,

Between Panoramic and Sequential: Nadar and the Serial Image, by Philippe Willems, at Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide.