"Funnybooks" is the story of the most popular American comic books
of the 1940s and 1950s, those published under the Dell label. For a
time, "Dell Comics Are Good Comics" was more than a slogan--it was
a simple statement of fact. Many of the stories written and drawn
by people like Carl Barks (Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge), John
Stanley (Little Lulu), and Walt Kelly (Pogo) repay reading and
rereading by educated adults even today, decades after they were
published as disposable entertainment for children. Such triumphs
were improbable, to say the least, because midcentury comics were
so widely dismissed as trash by angry parents, indignant
librarians, and even many of the people who published them. It was
all but miraculous that a few great cartoonists were able to look
past that nearly universal scorn and grasp the artistic potential
of their medium. With clarity and enthusiasm, Barrier explains what
made the best stories in the Dell comic books so special. He deftly
turns a complex and detailed history into an expressive narrative
sure to appeal to an audience beyond scholars and historians.
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