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Amazon.com ReviewIn J. Robert Lennon's fine, wistfully funny second novel, The Funnies, the comics turn out to be very serious business indeed. New Jersey cartoonist Carl Mix was an alcoholic tyrant who used his "Family Funnies" comic strip to transform his real family into a set of puckish, dimwitted cartoons. The only thing worse--he left one of his children out of the strip entirely. "Maybe Dad conceived of it as a way to control us," his slacker son Tim muses, as he receives news of his father's death. "In the unbreachable box of the comic strip, we could be charming and obedient, and we would stay that way, year after year." Carl's will has left nothing to Tim, a talent-free installation artist, except the "Family Funnies" themselves. If he can draw the strip in three months, then all rights and proceeds are his; if he can't, he gets nothing at all. Tim studies his father's craft, and he learns not only about cartooning but also about his father, families, even the small, redemptive miracle of work itself. There are many fine touches in Lennon's tale: the sad, chain-smoking brother Pierce, who takes pills to get rid of the "extra people"; their town's annual FunnyFest, in which visitors can buy Timburgers and Coca-Cola à la Carl; Brad Wurster, the grim-faced artist who teaches Tim how to draw ("'Family Funnies' sounded, on his tongue, like a fraternal order of concentration camp doctors"). But in the end, it's the funnies themselves that stay with you. As Tim works obsessively on the strip, its stylized visual language and bland gags eventually become an object of genuine, capital-M Mystery--weirdly compelling and symbolically fraught. In its own, stubbornly shallow way, the strip is a document of their family, or at least of their father's self-loathing. "Cartoon characters are deformed freaks we are convinced are like us," Wurster tells his reluctant pupil, but in Lennon's hands, it's the American family that looks more freakish than ever. You'll never look at the Sunday comics in quite the same way again. --Mary Park Funnies - Acronyms & Abbreviations Browse and search thousands of Funnies Abbreviations and acronyms in our comprehensive reference resource. Funnies For Teachers and Parents - funny - Teaching Heart Funnies For Teachers and Parents Inservice Joke Twas the Night Before School Starts Job Responsibility Rules You Might Be in Education If First Grade Proverbs DUmmie FUnnies DUmmie FUnnies A FUnnie look at the loony residents of the Democratic Underground aka DUmmies in particular and the Leftwing Blogosphere in general. Political Cartoons - Political Humor Jokes and Pictures ... See the latest political cartoons featuring Obama Clinton Trump and hot topics from todays best political cartoonists. Political cartoons humor pictures and ... CAR DEALERSHIP JOKES - 101 Fun Joke's 101FunJokes has funny car dealership jokes salesman jokes and lawyer jokes. Christian Humor and Other Clean Funnies and Jokes Welcome to the Funnies Garden at God's Little Acre. Here you will find Christian and other clean funnies and jokes -- just for laughs! Best Funnies Funnyville.com The best pictures jokes commercials and songs. Funnies about people animals blondes and more. Home Read Comic Strips at GoComics.com Welcome to GoComics.com the world's largest comic strip site for online classic strips like Calvin and Hobbes Dilbert Non Sequitur Get Fuzzy Luann Pearl Before ... Clean Christian Jokes Clean Christian Jokes. Enjoy a wide variety of Christian jokes clean jokes and family safe jokes and humor. Pastors Christmas God Marriage sermons Sunday ... Famous Funnies - Wikipedia Famous Funnies is an American publication of the 1930s that represents what popular culture historians consider the first true American comic book following seminal ...
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