Past Exhibitions ● 2009Sunday at the Funnies, 1910-2010
Sunday at the Funnies showcases newspaper tear sheets from the past century; a description of how comics were colored; puzzle, cut-out, and color activities; and a children’s creative play area.
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While newspaper publishers and editors saw comic strips as a way to attract readers to their papers and away from competitors, comic strips in general and the Sunday funnies in particular reflected and shaped the culture around them. As people sought to escape the troubled economic times brought on by the Great Depression in the 1930s, the Sunday funny pages were stuffed with action-adventure strips like Tarzan, Captain Easy, and Dick Tracy. Likewise the post-World War II years, marked simultaneously by unprecedented economic prosperity and a gnawing anxiety over the world’s newly-unleashed nuclear power, saw the rise of innovative intellectual strips exemplified by Pogo, Peanuts, and B.C.
