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Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies by Tom De Haven (1996, Hardcover) 
Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies by Tom De Haven (1996, Hardcover)

 
Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies by Tom De Haven (1996, Hardcover)

Author: Tom De Haven
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Publication Date: 1996-06-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0805044450
ISBN-13: 9780805044454
Product ID: EPID698076
Description: It is 1936. In New York City, a cartoonist is stricken with a mysterious ailment. His popular comic strip, however, must go on. As the frantic search for a ghostwriter begins, Tom DeHaven creates the city in all its seedy glory in this w...
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It is 1936. In New York City, a cartoonist is stricken with a mysterious ailment. His popular comic strip, however, must go on. As the frantic search for a ghostwriter begins, Tom DeHaven creates the city in all its seedy glory in this wisecracking novel.

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Publication Date:1996-06-01

Size
Length:290 pages
Height:9.0 in
Width:5.8 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:18.4 oz

Publisher's Note
Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies not only pays homage to American comic strips, it goes one better - it's a strip in novel form. Like the funnies, this novel teems with comic grotesqueries, the bizarre and the far-fetched, criminals of all persuasions, tricky twists of irony, and many an amazing adventure. In New York City, 1936, the legendary cartoonist Walter Geebus - self-confessed forger, back-stabber, misanthrope, and hot-goods passer - is hospitalized with a mysterious ailment. Was the old bastard poisoned - again? Although Geebus is stricken, possibly forever, his popular comic strip about an orphan boy and his smart-aleck talking dog must go on, as it has every day for the last forty years in hundreds of newspapers. But who can ghost the great Geebus and satisfy millions of avid readers who turn each morning to "Derby Dugan" for comic relief in hard times? The frantic search for a replacement begins. Narrated by the cynical Al Bready, Walter's scriptwriter and a lightning-fast author of pulp fiction, Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies conjures up a world of colorful characters. There's Howard Blum, surly and mysterious, a supremely talented comic artist with a secret past that he'll do anything to conceal; Clark Kamen, a former bootlegger, now the proprietor of a burgeoning comic-book company employing (make that exploiting) a small army of hungry boys; and Jewel Rogers, Clark Kamen's girl Friday, a woman with the world's most paralyzingly beautiful smile. Al Bready's New York City of 1936 is a wondrous and electric place, a tabloid town of swank nightclubs, seedy hotels, and cozy brothels; an Art Deco metropolis rife with gangsters, tycoons, gossip mongers, and dazed men andwomen waiting on long breadlines.

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"...[A] great pleasure that brings DeHaven's profound love for the grubby romance of comics, their history, and their smell to four-color life."
advertisement - Art Spiegelman

"The story wanders and straggles the way real life does, rife with loose ends and unresolved questions and random twists and turns....[The novel] works best and comes alive most antically when Mr. DeHaven is dealing with the workings and lore of the comics world, which he clearly knows inside out....[He] seems as fond of Depression-era New York City as he is of comic strips, and is at pains to imbue his setting with the gritty...atmosphere of a Berenice Abbott photo album....In his cover art and full-page frontispiece, and in the frieze of characters that is repeated across the top of every page, the witty and sly Art Spiegelman has supplied a tantalizing glimpse of what the 'Derby Dugan' strip might have looked like."
New York Times Book Review - Bruce McCall (07/07/1996)

"In Tom DeHaven's bright new novel..., we are reminded how central the funnies were to everyday life....'Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies' comes alive so endearingly that you wish Spiegelman's fictional strips really existed."
Philadelphia Inquirer - Roger Catlin (07/07/1996)

"Al Bready, writer for hire (funnies, novels, radio scripts, you name it) looks back on the odd-ball alliances of his hard-time heyday....Al moves through this wisecracking demimonde of bootleggers, desk clerks, dipsos, and floozies with a Bogey-like code of honor. It suits the era..."
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