Humor
Your Sunday Funnies Presents “Fingers of Fear”!
In 1928, Ed. Whelan’s “Minute Movies” comic strip presented this faux silent film serial thriller through his faux motion picture production company, which we will be reprinting in the coming weeks. It’s exceedingly weird and contemporary in its outlook. Maybe it satirized and parodied ridiculous and questionable Jazz Age movie tropes of the day, maybe it perpetuated them; we think it was the former. Whelan’s work is hard to find these days, but we think he is due for rediscovery.
And remember: “DO NOT MISS A SINGLE EPISODE!”
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Audere Magazine publishes an old or new comic strip many Sundays. Read more here.
Your Sunday Funnies, from 1927: Introducing Our Film Stars!
In the late 1920s, cartoonist Ed. Wheelan came up with an amazing conceit: create his own fictional silent screen motion picture studio, with a galaxy of fictional film stars, and present his own made-up movies, riffing on the trends of the day, comedies, early animated shorts, crime noir and melodramas. His presentation was both cartoonish and straightforward, and his presentation seems remarkably contemporary when viewed from the 21st century. He called his strip, “Minute Movies”.
This week we introduce you to some of Wheelan’s most popular stars (in his imagination) and next week begin the first of six “soul-stirring episodes” of his “Romance of Rose” motion picture.
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Your Sunday Funnies: “Boots and Her Buddies,” from 1927
This week, a newly enhanced and reimagined version of Edgar Martin’s strip from 1927, featuring a sexy Jazz-Age flapper.
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Your Sunday Funnies: From 1927, “Boots and Her Buddies”
“Boots and her Buddies,” from 1927, was a comic strip about a sexy flapper, and we chose this particular example to reprint because its tremendous outdatedness somehow makes it funnier.
The creator of the strip was Edgar Martin, and Boots somehow lasted all the way till 1968, forty years years after the market crash that killed the Jazz Age that birthed her.
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Your Sunday Funnies, from 1903: Buster Brown at the Soda Fountain
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Your Sunday Funnies: Vignettes of Life, from 1927
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Audere Magazine publishes an old or new comic strip many Sundays. Read more here.
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