{"id":13304,"date":"2020-05-04T09:24:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T13:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=13304"},"modified":"2020-05-04T09:25:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T13:25:28","slug":"episode-371-paul-c-tumey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-371-paul-c-tumey","title":{"rendered":"Episode 371 – Paul C Tumey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 371:
\nPaul C. Tumey<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I regard Mad Magazine as an apex of Screwballism in comic books, and in a way, my whole book is an attempt to understand what the lineage of Mad is.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Nov Shmoz Ka Pop? Writer & artist Paul C. Tumey<\/a> joins the show to talk about his fantastic new book, Screwball: The Cartoonists Who Made The Funnies Funny<\/a> (IDW Publishing). We get into where screwball cartooning began, how he selected the 15 cartoonists profiled in the book (like Herriman, Segar, Rube Goldberg, and Frederick Opper), the ways in which the book is an attempt at explaining the parentage of Mad Magazine<\/em>, the nuances of biography and his work at humanizing his subjects, and how screwball cartooning intersected with with vaudeville & film (and how the Marx Bros. got their names) and how it’s the subject of his next book. We also talk about how we’re coping with pandemic-panic and his latest binge-reads & -shows. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Screwball: The Cartoonists Who Made The Funnies Funny<\/a>!<\/p>\n

You can listen to all these COVID Check-In episodes at The COVID-19 Sessions<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Behind every accomplishment, whether it’s a comic strip or a mathematical theorem, there’s a person. We can certainly relate to the person, whether or not we can relate to their work.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n