COMIQUE: The Classic Comedy Magazine Issue #2
COMIQUE: The Classic Comedy Magazine is back, and Issue #2 features my favorite cover boy! A hearty handclasp to Paul E. Gierucki, David B. Pearson, and everyone involved with putting this together!
This beautiful, 224-page labor of love can be downloaded for free. The link is included at the bottom of the Facebook announcement below.
FACEBOOK ANNOUNCEMENT:
COMIQUE MAGAZINE IS BACK!
After one long and crazy year, Comique – The Classic Comedy Magazine – is back with Issue #2.
We (I, David B. Pearson, Eryn Merwart, and a LOT of our friends and colleagues) have created something fun and different to help everyone spring into Spring!
Following is a link from which you can download your very own copy of issue #2! This project, crafted and contributed to by some of the top historians, archivists, and artists in the business, is our GIFT to you — FREE. Gratis. Complimentary. On the house. Bupkis. No charge!
Inside of COMIQUE #2 you will find a whopping 224 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 #2 includes:
The “Flaming Youth” Comedies of Alice Day and Eddie Quillan by Lea Stans
Spike Jones: How the Man Who Murdered Music Helped Win World War II by Jordan R. Young
Raymond Rohauer: The Man Who Would Be Keaton by Edward Watz
The Lambs Club Comedies by Robert E. Tevis
The Ups & Downs of The Silent Clowns by David B. Pearson
Larry Semon: The Cinema Caricaturist by Maude Cheatham
W.C. Fields: The Family Ford by Paul E. Gierucki
The Great Stoneface? Part 2 by John Bengtson
Lupino Lane: Music Hall Revisited by Richard M. Roberts
Pollard’s Lilliputian Opera Company by Camille Scaysbrook
In Their Own Write: Fred Allen
McCollum Speaks by Philip K. Scheuer
Malice in the Palace: Curly Howard’s Final Film Revisited by Paul E. Gierucki
Musings: The Silent Movie Theatre by Sam Gill
Susan Stern Sherman’s “Remembering” by Thomas Reeder
Charlie Ruggles, Dog Lover by Mary Mallory
Langdon, Laurel, Hardy & Hal by Chris Seguin
The Comique Quiz by Annette D’Agostino Lloyd
and much more!
Too, we heard you loud and clear, issues number 1 and 2 will soon be available for pre-order in a limited printed and bound edition!
If you like what we are doing, and wish to help with a donation, we will certainly welcome any amount that you deem appropriate (– or not, the magazine is free!) simply send us a direct message via this page. 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/…/comique-the-classic-comedy…
**Note that it may take several hours for Archive.org to make the step-thru preview available.
In case you missed issue #1, check it out here:
https://archive.org/details/ComiqueMagazine1
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https://www.facebook.com/TheComiqueGroup
