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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 18, 2016 22:32:50 GMT -5
The discussion about Funnybooks, Funny Pages and Funny Papers made me remember the Funny Papers Trilogy by Tom DeHaven. The three books were Funny Papers, which follows the creation of comic strip character Derby Dugan at the turn of the 20th Century...Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies, which looks at the comic market in the 1930s...and Dugan Under Ground, about the birth of underground comics. All three are excellent novels that I highly recommend.
I suspect all of us are familiar with The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, which won the Pulitzer Prize and is about the Golden Age of Comics.
So any other novels that are set in the world of comics?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 18, 2016 22:46:35 GMT -5
You'd think Mickey Spillane would have written something since he began as a funnybook writer. Or possibly Max Allan Collins. But I don't know of an example from them
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2016 23:01:21 GMT -5
Brad Meltzer has one that revolves around a mystery involving Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, but I can't recall the title off hand.
-M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 18, 2016 23:03:10 GMT -5
You'd think Mickey Spillane would have written something since he began as a funnybook writer. Or possibly Max Allan Collins. But I don't know of an example from them And Ish tickles my brain. I don't think The Mick ever did...but Collins has. His Jack and Maggie Star series is set in the world of comics. Three volumes so far, A Killing in Comics; Strip for Murder and Seduction of the Innocent. I haven't read any of them...but I probably should. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 18, 2016 23:13:23 GMT -5
Brad Meltzer has one that revolves around a mystery involving Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, but I can't recall the title off hand. -M It appears to be The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer. Thank you, MRP. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2016 23:22:15 GMT -5
Brad Meltzer has one that revolves around a mystery involving Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, but I can't recall the title off hand. -M It appears to be The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer. Thank you, MRP. I was just about to post the title after looking it up. There's a totally off the wall book I am going to throw out there and I am pretty sure no one will read it. It's called Simply Irresistible by Kristine Grayson, a romance novel that features a character named Dexter Grant, a semi-immortal who had settled in the Cleveland area and had performed some astonishing feats in the Depression seen by a couple of Cleveland kids named Jerry and Joe who used the inspiration to create a comic book. He now owns a pet store in modern times and tries to live down that bout with notoriety to hide his true identity and well regular romance novel plots follow... It's a book I read when dating my now wife when we were challenging each other to read stuff the other liked but would never pick up on our own, and it wasn't half bad, it certainly captured the feel of 30s Superman for the sequences about that time in the character's life. The book did go on to launch a series (my wife has read them all but I only checked out that one), but it came out around the time Kavalier and Clay hit, so it caught our notice. -M |
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 19, 2016 0:33:04 GMT -5
Richard Lupoff, who co-wrote/edited All in Color For a Dime and the Comic Book-Book wrote a novel, called The Comic Book Killer, which revolved around a specific comic book.
Robert Rodi wrote What They Did to Princess Paragon, where a hotshot comic writer/artist, from the big company, is hired by longtime rival to redo their old character, princess paragon. he decides to depict her as a lesbian and the company is willing to go with it. Meanwhile, an obsessive and repressed fanboy ( I know, I know...) reading this decides he must go confront the creator and leaves home (apart from his job) to go confront the creator. very steeped in the 80s DC revamps, with a lot of comics touches. Rodi was a longtime letter hack and worked on the fringes of comics, before finding success as a novelist.
Kim Newman's The Quorum features a group who cut a deal to gain success, by sacrificing a friend to a life of misery. one of the Quorum is a comic writer/artist, who ends up with the big American company, killing off many of their oldest characters. He's given elements of several British comics people. by the way, the sacrificed friend is named Neil and Neil Gaiman is an old friend of Newman's. probably not a coincidence.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 19, 2016 7:27:46 GMT -5
I now recall reading a story-A murder mystery at a comic book convention. Sorry but no clue as to the author. It was possibly a shorter story in an anthology. Was it the Lupoff novel codystarbuck mentioned in it's original length?
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 19, 2016 20:55:12 GMT -5
I now recall reading a story-A murder mystery at a comic book convention. Sorry but no clue as to the author. It was possibly a shorter story in an anthology. Was it the Lupoff novel codystarbuck mentioned in it's original length? Comic Book Killer features a burglary of a comic book shop and murder of the store owner, investigated by an insurance claims agent. It included a faux 1940s comic. It was the first in a series of mystery novels by Lupoff, with the insurance claims agent. |
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