Review
“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
Product Description
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.
