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Funny Papers: A Novel (Paperback)

~ (Author) "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..." (more)
Key Phrases: yellow derby, dog that talks, funny sheet, Professor Thom, New York, Doctor Geebus (more...)

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Product Details

Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Picador; 1st edition (November 9, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312421346
ISBN-13: 978-0312421342
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,225,567 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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

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yellow derby, dog that talks, funny sheet, cannon crackers, shoeshine kit, little nobody, funny papers, pitching machine

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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

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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
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The Last Human (Chronicles of the King's Tramp, Book 3) 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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4.0 out of 5 stars What a pleasure!, May 25, 2005

By	Josh Neufeld "stoshmaster" (Brooklyn) - See all my reviews

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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4.0 out of 5 stars Funny Papers is a fantastic evocation of the Old Days, August 17, 1999

By	Stu Shiffman (roscoe@halcyon.com) "stus" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

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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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4.0 out of 5 stars Funny Papers is a fantastic evocation of the Old Days, August 17, 1999

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