From Hoppin' Frog #7 (2000) by Paul Tumey.
First publication anywhere, anytime, man.
First publication anywhere, anytime, man.
Copyright 2012 Paul Tumey. All Rights Reserved.
My first book, Screwball! The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny is scheduled for publication in September 2018. The publisher will be The Library of American Comics/IDW. Eisner-Award winner Dean Mullany will design and edit the book, with Bruce Canwell and Lorraine Turner providing their expertise, as well. It will be a large, full-color hardcover art book offering around 275 pages resplendent with rare comics, art, photos and original research. The story of screwball comics in America is a large topic, more sprawling than one book can reasonably encompass if one wishes to present satisfying chunks of reprints. Foo this reason, I decided, after much deliberation, to narrow the focus of this book on American newspaper comics up to about 1950. This means the screwballists who primarily worked in comic books -- Jack Cole, Dick Briefer, Basil Wolverton, Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Al Jaffee -- are saved for, hopefully, another volume. Even with this limitation, it ...
IIRC, this story was begun circa 1998, when you and I were knee-deep in our eBay venture, wonderama... I was still with Brad then, as the manager of the restaurant is amusingly named after Brad's eccentric Uncle Ted. I vividly remember sitting at your living room table drawing another story while you did at least part of this one... it's wonderful to see this thrust upon the world at long last!
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