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Derby Dugan's depression funnies

Title
Derby Dugan's depression funnies / Tom De Haven.
Author
De Haven, Tom.
Publication
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 1996.

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290 pages; 22 cm
Summary
  • 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 and women waiting on long breadlines.
Subject
Comic books, strips, etc. > Fiction
ISBN
0805044450 (alk. paper)
LCCN
95047237
OCLC
ocm33863055
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries