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Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies by Tom De Haven (2002, Paperback) 
Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies by Tom De Haven (2002, Paperback)

 
Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies by Tom De Haven (2002, Paperback)

Author: Tom De Haven
Publisher: Picador USA
Publication Date: 2002-11-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0312421338
ISBN-13: 9780312421335
Product ID: EPID2313890
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:2002-11-01

Size
Length:320 pages
Height:8.5 in
Width:5.8 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:8.0 oz

Industry Reviews
"...[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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