Funny Papers

Funny Papers by DeHaven, Tom. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780670332519.

Funny Papers chronicles cartoon icon Derby Dugans 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 Pulitzers daily World, rockets to fame as the creator of what becomes a hugely successful cartoon franchise in this, the first book in Tom De Havens epic trilogy of twentieth-century pop-culture America. Funny Papers chronicles cartoon icon Derby Dugans 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 Pulitzers daily World, rockets to fame as the creator of what becomes a hugely successful cartoon franchise in this, the first book in Tom De Havens epic trilogy of twentieth-century pop-culture America.