funnies

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William Blake “Bill” Everett, Burgos’s comrade at Funnies, Inc, was an oddity in comics.

From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2019

As underground comics surged in popularity in the late 1960s, Mr. Williamson and his fellow cartoonist Jay Lynch created Bijou Funnies, a comic book that showcased their work and that of other artists.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2017

The result is a whole library of miscellaneous comic gems - "Foreign Office Funnies" as they are known in Whitehall - which are much treasured and passed around.

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2012

And Stan is one of the founding fathers of contemporary cartoon reportage, having created Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies for the Village Voice back in the mid-1970s.

From Salon • Jul. 10, 2012

CBS offers only 2 hours 20 minutes of new programs, and more than half of that time is given over to cartoons on the order of Pebbles and Bam Bam and Archie's TV Funnies.

From Time Magazine Archive