Not that there's anything inherently funny about Connecticut, as far as we know, but through the height of the 20th century, many of America's top gag cartoonists, comic book artists, and magazine illustrators all lived within a stone's throw of each other in Fairfield County. Cullen Murphy's father John Cullen Murphy drew the comic strips Prince Valiant and Big Ben Bolt, and his friends included the artists behind Superman, Beetle Bailey, Snuffy Smith, Hagar the Horrible, Nancy, The Wizard of Id, and The Lockhorns. Packed with cartoons, drawings, sketches, and photos, Murphy's book brings this lost era to life, told through the friendships of these artists and the relationship of a son to his father.