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by Tom De Haven (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)
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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. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.


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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.
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Funny Papers is a fantastic evocation of the Old Days, Aug 17 1999
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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, Aug 17 1999
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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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