The Someday Funnies

The Someday Funnies is an exceptionally large and varied book of comics which was published by Abrams on November 1, 2011. During the early 1970s, the humorist Michel Choquette gradually put together a unique collection of comics about the 1960s, by soliciting work internationally from contemporary writers and artists, 169 of whom responded. Forty years later the book has finally been published. The project was originally intended as a special supplement for the magazine Rolling Stone, but rapidly grew too large for that purpose.

Of those who contributed pieces, some were already well-known as cartoonists, but many others were leading creative figures of the 20th century in fields other than cartooning. Pieces were created especially for the book by writers, artists, and composers including William Burroughs, Federico Fellini, Tom Wolfe, Frank Zappa, Harvey Kurtzman, Gahan Wilson, Red Grooms, and numerous others.

References

• Review by R.C. Baker from The Village Voice
• Review by Tom Flinn at icv2,com
• Amazon [1]
• Abrams [2]
• The Comics Journal, 2009 article [3]
• Interview with Choquette about the book in ICv2 [4]