SCREWBALL CARTOONISTS WHO MADE FUNNIES FUNNY HC Absorbing Man and more -

Absorbing Man and more - and suffer a devastating loss

Plus: the eerie odyssey of John Kowalski

but finds something else instead

Wonder Man and the Beast have seen it

Worry is indeed for another day

SCREWBALL CARTOONISTS WHO MADE FUNNIES FUNNY HC Absorbing Man and more -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