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Weird But True Toon Factoids"Weird But True Toon Factoids"
by Craig Yoe
Gramercy, 1999
      If you thought those funny pages and comic books were perfectly harmless, then you're in for a shock of the best kind. Craig Yoe has gathered all types of facts about our favorite cartoon characters and  presents it in a Ripley's Believe It Or Not format. From the dawn of the political cartoons to modern animated t.v. series, Yoe tells you all the behind-the-scenes storied that came about and because of  these drawings. Some examples include how the size and configuration of the Jetson's beds changed during the course of their series, how Elvis based his looks on Captain Marvel, Jr., how president F.D.R. insisted that a Mickey Mouse cartoon be shown before every movie he saw, and that Simpson's creator Matt Groening hid his initials in Homer Simpson's head. We bachelors known the best part of the newspaper is always the funny pages, and for those who doubted the power of the comic strip just look through these pages and find how comics changed political elections and social changes...oh, and they do a pretty good job of making you laugh too.

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