Comique

20/10/2023

Director & Film Historian Paul E. Gierucki will be speaking with host Dennis Campa for a live episode of Adventures in Sound on KOOP radio tomorrow afternoon, Saturday October 21st! They will be discussing Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, The Three Stooges, Mack Sennett, the Educational Pictures film library, film restoration, the upcoming issue of COMIQUE MAGAZINE, and all things classic comedy! Tune in from 2 to 3 p.m. (EST) on 91.7 FM, in Austin Texas, or listen online via koop.org!

28/11/2022

The newsletter for the Coronado Island Film Festival includes this paragraph: "But I’m most excited about two things the Festival put together. A segment called “Babe and Harold.” Leonard Maltin will be talking about the films Babe Ruth has done, with Tom Stevens and John Weisbarth. And, who is the Harold? That would be the guy my stepdad first turned me onto when I was a kid – Harold Lloyd. His granddaughter Suzanne Lloyd will be there and I can’t wait to hear what she has to say about her legendary granddad." (Find the festival's link in the Comments below.)

22/06/2022

Many of you here know Eryn Leedale Merwart. Even more of you have benefited from her works -- by way of The International Buster Keaton Society, and her position as Managing Editor of Comique: The Classic Comedy Magazine. If you are a member of the Damfinos, have read and enjoyed an issue of Comique Magazine, or are simply in a position to help someone who has suffered a devastating loss, please consider donating or sharing this link. If you do, please know that you have my sincere appreciation and heartfelt thanks.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-eryn-rebuild-after-a-devastating-tragedy?fbclid=IwAR2IB-l3_qqtzC2jYymJO9WeIHO_3WzHHSOpKDIJ2_hcQe8nXD5ubbAewZk

In Memory of Myles Merwart On June 2, Eryn Merwart lost her soulmate … Beth Pederson needs your support for Help Eryn rebuild after a devastating tragedy

01/04/2022

COMIQUE MAGAZINE IS BACK!

After one long and crazy year, Comique – The Classic Comedy Magazine – is back with Issue #2.

Historians Paul E. Gierucki, David B. Pearson, Eryn Merwart, and a LOT of our friends and colleagues, have created something fun and different to help everyone spring into Spring!

Following is a link from which you can download your very own copy of issue #2! This project, crafted and contributed to by some of the top historians, archivists, and artists in the business, is our GIFT to you -- FREE. Gratis. Complimentary. On the house. Bupkis. No charge!

Inside of COMIQUE #2 you will find a whopping 224 pages of original articles, amazing stories, artwork, and rare images featuring the great, not-so-great, and nearly forgotten comedians ranging from the 1900s through the 1960s!

Issue #2 includes:

The “Flaming Youth” Comedies of Alice Day and Eddie Quillan by Lea Stans

Spike Jones: How the Man Who Murdered Music Helped Win World War II by Jordan R. Young

Raymond Rohauer: The Man Who Would Be Keaton by Edward Watz

The Lambs Club Comedies by Robert E. Tevis

The Ups & Downs of The Silent Clowns by David B. Pearson

Larry Semon: The Cinema Caricaturist by Maude Cheatham

W.C. Fields: The Family Ford by Paul E. Gierucki

The Great Stoneface? Part 2 by John Bengtson

Lupino Lane: Music Hall Revisited by Richard M. Roberts

Pollard’s Lilliputian Opera Company by Camille Scaysbrook

In Their Own Write: Fred Allen

McCollum Speaks by Philip K. Scheuer

Malice in the Palace: Curly Howard’s Final Film Revisited by Paul E. Gierucki

Musings: The Silent Movie Theatre by Sam Gill

Susan Stern Sherman’s “Remembering” by Thomas Reeder

Charlie Ruggles, Dog Lover by Mary Mallory

Langdon, Laurel, Hardy & Hal by Chris Seguin

The Comique Quiz by Annette D'Agostino Lloyd

and much more!

Too, we heard you loud and clear, issues number 1 and 2 will soon be available for pre-order in a limited printed and bound edition!

If you like what we are doing, and wish to help with a donation, we will certainly welcome any amount that you deem appropriate (-- or not, the magazine is free!) simply send us a direct message via this page. Your kind support is deeply appreciated! Please feel free to tell your friends and share the link as you wish. Enjoy!

Download COMIQUE – THE CLASSIC COMEDY MAGAZINE here:

https://archive.org/details/comique-the-classic-comedy-magazine-issue-no.-2

**Note that it may take several hours for Archive.org to make the step-thru preview available.

In case you missed issue #1, check it out here:

https://archive.org/details/ComiqueMagazine1

COMIQUE - The Classic Comedy Magazine

10/12/2020

Heads up comedy fans! Historians Richard M. Roberts and Sam Gill, in conjunction with the Niles Film Museum, are preparing an exciting live Zoom "broadcast" titled CIRCUS PERFORMERS WHO RAN AWAY TO THE MOVIES!

Join Sam and Richard for a lively discussion, showcasing circus performers who became film stars, with screenings of THE CIRCUS KID (1928) starring Frankie Darro, Joe E. Brown, Helene Costello and Poodles Hanneford, CIRCUS DAZE (1928) a Weiss Brothers-Artclass comedy starring Poodles Hanneford, and many more surprises! Mark you calendars, Saturday December 19th, 2020 at 8:00PM (Eastern). Do not miss this FREE show!

Please follow the link below for additional details:

https://nilesfilmmuseum.org/?tv=4997833899900928

10/12/2020

The great Leonard Maltin has just published his 2020 Gift Guide -- in which he kindly recommends COMIQUE: The Classic Comedy Magazine! How cool is that?

https://leonardmaltin.com/leonards-gift-guide/

We thought it might be fun to come up with a short gift-giving guide for your favorite cinephiles. Please remember to support small businesses today and every day. Hope you enjoy. GROUCHO MARX FACE…

06/12/2020

COMIQUE is His Favourite Pastime! How about you?
https://archive.org/details/ComiqueMagazine1

01/12/2020

We wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for the calls, emails, likes, shares, and thoughtful promotion of our new magazine. We were completely overwhelmed by the wonderful response.

We promised that we would continue if there was any interest and, brother, did you ever make your voices heard! As such, we are officially working out the technical details to make a high quality print edition of issue #1 available for sale, and issue two is well under way -- with even more exciting content!

Again, our most sincere and heartfelt thanks for your kind support.
Watch this space for updates!

https://archive.org/details/ComiqueMagazine1

26/11/2020

This is a rare transcription recording of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello appearing on OUR LAND BE BRIGHT, circa 1947, to help combat juvenile deliquency. This recording was rediscovered and digitally transferred by Gierucki Studios, LLC.

20/11/2020

ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE COMIQUE GROUP:

We think it is safe to say that 2020 was not quite the year that anyone was expecting!

Many of us in the entertainment industry have been unable to work since March, a maddening thing for artists of any stripe, and the future remains uncertain. However, rather than remain idle, historians Paul E. Gierucki, David B. Pearson, Eryn Merwart, and a LOT of friends and colleagues, decided that we wanted to use the time to do something special – create something fun and different to help balance out this dumpster fire of a year!

Below you will find a link from which you can download your very own copy of COMIQUE: The Classic Comedy Magazine! This project, crafted and contributed to by some of best historians, archivists, and artists in the business, is our GIFT to you! Free. Gratis. No charge. We are hoping that this holiday offering will provide everyone with an entertaining diversion in what has otherwise been a complicated time for many.

Inside of COMIQUE you will find a whopping 160 pages of original articles, amazing stories, artwork, and rare images featuring the great, not-so-great, and nearly forgotten comedians ranging from the 1900s through the 1960s!

Issue #1 includes:

Lea Stans – Pantomime and Pratfalls: The Busy Career of Billy Bevan

Annette Lloyd – Harold Lloyd: Undiscovered Country

Joanna E. Rapf – Dorothy Devore: Luminary of the Two-Reelers

Joyce Richardson – Walker and Williams

John Bengtson – The Great Stone Face?

Sam Gill – Musings

Mary Mallory – Franklin Pangborn -- The Early Years

Walt Mitchell & Paul E. Gierucki – Abbott and Costello on Record

Edward Watz – Shemp Sightings

Dean Vanderkolk – Ed Simmons: Television’s Unsung Comedy Hero

Tony Susnick – Kalton C. Lahue: A Pioneering Historian Remembered

Gierucki – The Hardy Family

Pearson – Our Gang: The Jean Darling Jinx

Patty Tobias – Buster Keaton: What You Thought You Knew

William Malin – A Great Act of Kindness by Groucho Marx

And much more!

If there is interest, we will continue to publish COMIQUE at irregular intervals and eventually offer printed archival editions for sale. If you like what we are doing, and wish to help us with a donation, we would certainly welcome any amount that you deem appropriate ( -- or not, the magazine is free!) simply direct PayPal donations to us at [email protected]. Your kind support is deeply appreciated! Please feel free to tell your friends and share the link as you wish. Enjoy!

Sincerely,
The Comique Group

Download COMIQUE – THE CLASSIC COMEDY MAGAZINE here:
https://archive.org/details/ComiqueMagazine1

Join THE COMIQUE GROUP page here:
https://www.facebook.com/TheComiqueGroup