num_pages: 320
description: A comedy on the world of comics featuring Tim Mix, a struggling artist. Opportunity knocks when Mix's father dies and Mix is offered to take over the father's successful, syndicated cartoon. Question is will the son match his father's sense of humor, part of the cartoon's popularity being that it pokes fun at the oddball Mix family. By the author of The Light of Falling Stars.
language: English
title: The Funnies
titlecomplete: The Funnies
genres: Family, Fiction, Humor, Comics, Literary Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 373
publisher: Granta