Preview: SCREWBALL! The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny
SCREWBALL! The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny
Dean Mullaney (Author) • Bruce Canwell (Author) • Paul C. Tumley (Author)
The story of screwball comics, with new research and rare art from some of the most hilarious cartoonists of all time.
Before “screwball” became a movie genre, it was a staple of other forms of American culture, including newspaper comic strips. Emerging from the pressures of a rapidly accelerating technological and information-drenched society, screwball comics offered a healthy dose of laughter and perspective. Comics scholar Paul C. Tumey traces the development of screwball as a genre in magazine cartoons and newspaper comics, presenting the lives and work of around two dozen cartoonists, with an art-stuffed chapter on each.
Screwball! offers a wealth of previously un-reprinted comics, unleashing fresh views of some of America’s greatest and most-loved cartoonists, including George Herriman (Krazy Kat), E.C. Segar (creator of Popeye), Winsor McCay (Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend), Rube Goldberg (The Inventions of Professor Lucifer G. Butts, A.K.) and Bill Holman (Smokey Stover). In addition, readers will be delighted to discover previously “lost” screwball masters including Gene Ahern (The Squirrel Cage), Gus Mager (Sherlocko the Monk), Milt Gross (Count Screwloose), George Swanson ($alesman $am) and many others.
HC • FC • 272 pages • 11” x 10.5” • ISBN: 978-1-68405-187-8
It is quite nice of you to provide a preview of my book. However, the only author is Paul C. Tumey (not Tumley). Also, Winsor MvCay is not in this book.
For these, we go off of the solicits which you can find an example here https://www.idwpublishing.com/product/screwball-the-cartoonists-who-made-the-funnies-funny/
What should Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell be listed as? Happy to update it.
Thanks Brett for that info. I’ve written IDW and requested corrections.Dean and Bruce were the book’s editors. I am the sole author.