COMIQUE: The Classic Comedy Magazine
Where has this magazine been all my life?! Film historian Paul E. Gierucki, of the home video label CineMuseum, LLC, just gave an amazing gift to fans of classic film comedy with the debut of COMIQUE: The Classic Comedy Magazine! This beautiful, 160-page labor of love can be downloaded for free at the link below. Be sure to read the full announcement from the Comique Facebook page below, and send the editors a tip if you feel so inclined.
Download COMIQUE – THE CLASSIC COMEDY MAGAZINE here:
https://archive.org/details/ComiqueMagazine1
Join THE COMIQUE GROUP Facebook page here:
https://www.facebook.com/TheComiqueGroup
Donations: The magazine is FREE, but if you want to support this project, you can send PayPal donations of any amount to BrittanyJane99@hotmail.com.
FACEBOOK ANNOUNCEMENT:
I think it is safe to say that 2020 was not quite the year that anyone was expecting!
Many of us in the entertainment industry have been unable to work since March, a maddening thing for artists of any stripe, and the future remains uncertain. However, rather than remain idle, David B. Pearson, Eryn Merwart, myself, and a LOT of our friends and colleagues, decided that we wanted to use the time to do something special – create something fun and different to help balance out this dumpster fire of a year!
Below you will find a link from which you can download your very own copy of COMIQUE: The Classic Comedy Magazine! This project, crafted and contributed to by some of best historians, archivists, and artists in the business, is our GIFT to you! Free. Gratis. No charge. We are hoping that this holiday offering will provide everyone with an entertaining diversion in what has otherwise been a complicated time for many.
Inside of COMIQUE you will find a whopping 160 pages of original articles, amazing stories, artwork, and rare images featuring the great, not-so-great, and nearly forgotten comedians ranging from the 1900s through the 1960s!
Issue #1 includes:
- Lea Stans – Pantomime and Pratfalls: The Busy Career of Billy Bevan
- Annette Lloyd – Harold Lloyd: Undiscovered Country
- Joanna E. Rapf – Dorothy Devore: Luminary of the Two-Reelers
- Joyce Richardson – Walker and Williams
- John Bengtson – The Great Stone Face?
- Sam Gill – Musings
- Mary Mallory – Franklin Pangborn — The Early Years
- Walt Mitchell & Paul E. Gierucki – Abbott and Costello on Record
- Edward Watz – Shemp Sightings
- Dean Vanderkolk – Ed Simmons: Television’s Unsung Comedy Hero
- Tony Susnick – Kalton C. Lahue: A Pioneering Historian Remembered
- Gierucki – The Hardy Family
- Patty Tobias – Buster Keaton: What You Thought You Knew
- William Malin – A Great Act of Kindness by Groucho Marx
- And much more!
If there is interest, we will continue to publish COMIQUE at irregular intervals and eventually offer printed archival editions for sale. If you like what we are doing, and wish to help us with a donation, we would certainly welcome any amount that you deem appropriate ( — or not, the magazine is free!) simply direct PayPal donations to us at BrittanyJane99@hotmail.com. Your kind support is deeply appreciated! Please feel free to tell your friends and share the link as you wish. Enjoy!
Download COMIQUE – THE CLASSIC COMEDY MAGAZINE here:
https://archive.org/details/ComiqueMagazine1
Join THE COMIQUE GROUP Facebook page here:
https://www.facebook.com/TheComiqueGroup
