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Nearly everyone read the same comics and cartoonists and kept up with what Flash Gordon or Little Orphan Annie was doing, same as we might keep up with the Kardashians. In the period where this phrase came to common usage (the decades surrounding WWII) the Sunday newspaper comic strips were BIG media (and the daily strips, and the editorial cartoons, to a lesser extent). 'Hey, have you seen what's in the paper today? Hitler bombed The Vatican!'). 'The papers' was equivalent to today's 'trending' (i.e. the newspaper) was the main way most people knew any fact, any trend, anything that was the zeitgeist of the time. Everyone could afford a newspaper, or access one cheaply or free. Newspapers used to be THE main source of all information. To understand the phrase 'See you in the funny papers' one must know a few things about American culture and history: This use by scouts suggests it's not insulting, but may be used in a good-natured, light-hearted mocking manner.

Here's a 1922 example in the signoff of a report in The Tusla Scout from Troop 12 by Ed M'Lain (published in The Tulsa Daily World, March 19, 1922): La, la, till the next time, and I'll see you in the funny papers. Here's a Apletter published in University of Virginia student paper The Virginia Reel (ApVol. We will see you in the 'funny paper' next month. '30.'Īnother in the Union Postal Clerk (March 1921, Vol. So long, boys, see you in the funny paper. The earliest example I found of the phrase is in a letter in Commercial Telegraphers' Journal (August 1920, Vol. The OED has funny paper from 1874 and funny column from 1860, meaning 'a (section of a) newspaper containing humorous matter or illustrations'. Perhaps adopted in the UK from American servicemen c. 'This jocular farewell suggests that the person addressed is rather laughable: US: 1920s extinct by the 1950s' (R.C., 1978). See you in the funny papers (-often and orig. Some of the very best of these reader-created cartoons are featured in the monthly print edition.See you in the funny paper means 'Goodbye, see you soon'.Ī Dictionary of Catch Phrases (1986) by Eric Partridge and Paul Beale says: Good cartoons are put on the 'editor's pick's' feature of the site. These people sometimes communicate to each other using cartoons, turning the 'Cartoon Playground' into something like a social networking site. Some of the more frequent contributors to the Playground Cartoon section include individuals going by such names as: CIAgent, Claustrophobic, cta, Danger Dan, Demosfoni, Ducky, Earthmuffin, Elephant Man, Ellie May, Eric Per1in, Fracturedfish, Hal, Just Bean, Konrad Schwoerke, Lo Bottomy, Mr Smartypants, Queen Bean, Rick Dickulous, Sophie, Yankees with Hope, and Zack. Since January 2007, the Funny Times web site has featured something called the 'Cartoon Playground', in which anyone with Internet access can create and instantly post their own comic strips using artwork drawn by Matt Wuerker.

Other contributing writers and cartoonists include: Editor Ray Lesser frequently contributes his own humorous essays, and an essay by Dave Barry can be found in virtually every issue.Įach issue contains choice selections of such offbeat comic strips as This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow, Bizarro by Dan Piraro, Zippy the Pinhead by Bill Griffith, Too Much Coffee Man by Shannon Wheeler, Life in Hell by Matt Groening, Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling, The K Chronicles by Keith Knight, and Slowpoke by Jen Sorensen.

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It devotes a full page in each issue to the syndicated column News of the Weird, which features dozens of bizarre true stories from around the world, compiled by Chuck Shepherd. It includes cartoons, columns and essays that derive humor from pop culture, current events, politics and day-to-day living. FT currently has about 75,000 subscribers. The political content is often subversive and has a progressive/liberal perspective.įT's editors have also published a book called 'Funny Times: The Best of The Best of American Humor.'įT Subscriptions are currently $25 per year. Every issue is exactly 24 pages in length, and the only ads it runs are for its own Funny Times-related merchandise. It is printed on newsprint paper, with each page measuring 11 X 17 inches. The monthly publication is printed in the format of a daily newspaper. The categories change somewhat from issue to issue.

Each issue is organized into sections such as 'Relationships', 'Dogs', 'Politics', 'Current Events', and others.

Funny Times is an American humor newspaper founded by the husband and wife team of Raymond Lesser and Susan Wolpert in 1985.

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