Funny Papers chronicles cartoon icon Derby Dugan's beginnings in the rough-and-tumble world of yellow journalism in turn-of-the-century New York, when Hearst and Pulitzer owned tabloid America. The aptly named Georgie Wreckage, a sketch artist for Pulitzer's daily World, rockets to fame as the creator of what becomes a hugely successful cartoon franchise in this, the first book in Tom De Haven's epic trilogy of twentieth-century pop-culture America.
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“The Derby books, with their multiple viewpoints, carefully interwoven plotlines and potted social history lessons, are a mighty accomplishment: John Dos Passos’s USA Trilogy for comic geeks.”—The New York Times Book Review
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Tom De Haven is a frequent contributor to Entertainment Weekly and The New York Times, and teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University. He lives in Midlothian, Virginia.
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What a pleasure!,
By Josh Neufeld "stoshmaster" (Brooklyn) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Funny Papers: A Novel (Paperback)
The spirit of the book and its many memorable characters is infused with the joyful creative energy of the late 19th Century. I love books about that period, and the fact that Funny Papers is centered on the birth of the newspaper comic strip makes it all the more enjoyable.
Funny Papers is a glorious mixture of humor, drama, pathos, education, and literary sleight-of-hand - a true portrait of the period it illuminates. Secondary character Walter Geebus is wide-eyed and callow in Funny Papers - when the sequel, Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies arrives, he is worn down and bitter. And I loved the character of Pinfold! It's ironic to see Michael Chabon and Jonathan Lethem getting so much ink about their mixing prose and comics when De Haven has been doing it since the mid-'80s. Much as I love Kavalier & Clay, I found Funny Papers to be just as memorable.
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Funny Papers is a fantastic evocation of the Old Days,
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Tom De Haven's Funny Papers is a fantastic evocation of the Good Old Days in New York of the 1890's and the beginning of the newspaper comic strip. It ventures, from time to time, into the realm bordering magic realism, but that only places the greater realism in higher relief. His character's parallel to the history of R. F. Outcault and the Yellow Kid, and the birth of Buster Brown, is well done and entertaining.
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Tom De Haven's Funny Papers is a fantastic evocation of the Good Old Days in New York of the 1890's and the beginning of the newspaper comic strip. It ventures, from time to time, into the realm bordering magic realism, but that only places the greater realism in higher relief. His character's parallel to the history of R. F. Outcault and the Yellow Kid, and the birth of Buster Brown, is well done and entertaining.
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Park Row is a little street at the foot of Manhattan, just south of the plaza entrance to Brooklyn Bridge, and in those days nearly all the city's newspapers were published there. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
yellow derby, dog that talks, funny sheet, cannon crackers, shoeshine kit, little nobody, funny papers, pitching machine Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Professor Thom, New York, Doctor Geebus, Awful Alley, Georgie Wreckage, Walter Geebus, Sawdust Street, Bread Witch, Connie Dwyer, Slippery John, Ninth Street, Mother Polk, Park Row, Black Gang, Fifth Avenue, Long Branch, Wall Street, Artificial Midnight, Father David, Handsome Sid, Jesus Christ, Maid Bridget, Walt Geebus, Yellow Hag, Albert Shallow New!
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Park Row is a little street at the foot of Manhattan, just south of the plaza entrance to Brooklyn Bridge, and in those days nearly all the city's newspapers were published there. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
yellow derby, dog that talks, funny sheet, cannon crackers, shoeshine kit, little nobody, funny papers, pitching machine Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Professor Thom, New York, Doctor Geebus, Awful Alley, Georgie Wreckage, Walter Geebus, Sawdust Street, Bread Witch, Connie Dwyer, Slippery John, Ninth Street, Mother Polk, Park Row, Black Gang, Fifth Avenue, Long Branch, Wall Street, Artificial Midnight, Father David, Handsome Sid, Jesus Christ, Maid Bridget, Walt Geebus, Yellow Hag, Albert Shallow New!
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- Buster Brown by Richard-Fel Outcault in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Human End by T.C. Lake in Front Matter
- The Time Machine / The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells on page 311
- Sunburn Lake by Tom DeHaven in Front Matter
- The Time Machine by H G Wells on page 311
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- Dugan Under Ground: A Novel by Tom De Haven in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Paging New Jersey: A Literary Guide to the Garden State by James F. Broderick on page 110, and page 111
- The Last Human (Chronicles of the King's Tramp) by Tom De Haven in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The End-Of-Everything Man: Chronicles of the King's Tramp, Bk. 2 by Tom De Haven in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies: A Novel by Tom De Haven in Front Matter
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