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Like its rival in mainstream comics Marvel, DC Comics has no shortage of mediocre draughtsmen at its disposal - and they rarely hesitate to use them. If you use the 'Add to want list' tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available. This is a preview and discussion page for The Enigma Emporiums upcoming Kickstarter (2021) for the puzzle game Funny Pages. Though slimmer than The Big Funny at just sixteen pages, having gotten my hands on the first two issues I can say that they’re sixteen excellent pages, produced by some of the better comics talent out there. Published Sep 1937 by Comics Magazine Company.

Funny pages comics full#

Wednesday Comics too is a full-size comics section, this one featuring some of the publisher’s marquee franchises (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, etc.) and, starting earlier this month, printed in vibrant full color once a week. Over at the comic book mega-publisher DC Comics, similar ideas are driving their Wednesday Comics series, albeit with slightly more commercial potential. Premiering next week in Minneapolis, the team behind The Big Funny hopes to upend the formula that determines the comics you see in contemporary newspapers: “Today’s small strips, with mostly predictable, safe themes and bland characters are a pale shadow of what newspaper comics were in their wild and colorful youth… collaborating to produce an oversized newspaper comics section like they would do it today if they still did it like they did it in the old days.” A decidedly independent-minded project from The International Cartoonist Conspiracy, The Big Funny features literally dozens of comics talents, some of them quite good, but most of whom you’ve probably never heard of unless you’re already steeped in this world.

Even as newspapers seem to be continually shrinking, whether in page count or in the actual dimension of their pages, these comics are making efforts to look big.Ī project called The Big Funny aims to bring together comic strips and ideas from all over the world in a massive 48-page funnies section. This summer two different projects have ambitions to resurrect the long suffering funny pages, i.e., newspaper comic strips printed in a broadsheet (or broadsheet-esque) format. As such this listing is not so much for comics which always had a publisher such as Dell, or DC or Eastern Color, but for characters who appeared in comics from one or more of those publishers while really always being a thing of the papers.Last gasps for a dying medium: as the printed newspaper’s future looks increasingly precarious, some noble - but not necessarily game-changing - attempts are being made to revisit its former glory. The last comic to do this in America was probably DC’s Mutt and Jeff by Bud Fisher which printed nothing but newspaper strips of the pair until 1958.Īs such there are a lot of characters such as Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie, Mutt & Jeff, Tarzan in the 40’s, Blondie and others that while published by one comic book company or another, sometimes even by two or three simultaneously, they were really never a part of that comic company, but always characters of the newspaper’s funny pages. Their creator Zach started the NSFW comic. However even after Detective there were still many comics, such as Famous Funnies, The Funnies, Crackajack Comics, Super Comics, and others that would be made up of newspaper strips recut as a comic.Įventually this practice would end, even Famous Funnies started to print original material for the comics. Extra Fabulous Comics talk about the darker side of everyday life in the most sarcastic yet hilariously funny way. Which is why National Periodical Publication’s (DC) Detective Comics with all new content was so important to the development of the form. At the beginning of the publication of comic books many were simply made up of a collection of a months worth of Sunday Funnies, or even daily strips from the newspaper collected into magazine format and sold for a dime.