Book-It 'o13! Book #11
The Fifty Books Challenge, year four! (Years one, two, three, and four just in case you're curious.) This was a secondhand find.
Title: The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons by The New Yorker Magazine
Details: Copyright 1992, Random House
Synopsis (By Way of Publisher's Info): "Here are the funniest and most feline cats ever assembled in 101 cartoons, the cream of the cream, from sixty-five years of the New Yorker. "
Why I Wanted to Read It: I've long loved The New Yorker's frequently bizarre, "high-art" cartoons, generally the older the better.
How I Liked It: While I tend to loathe most "collections", the editors have done a tidy job of recognizing the institution of the New Yorker cartoon and maintaining the brand.
The book spans the magazine's storied history (up until that publishing point, anyway) as well as its various degrees of "humor" (including several of the non sequitors for which the magazine is known).
A decent, bite-sized read for fans of (predictably) cats and/or The New Yorker, although given its size and obviously limited scope, this might not be the book you want to give to attempt to convert your friends into appreciation for the art form.
Notable: The book has some legends that one would expect to see (the ever-amazing Charles Addams apparently did a few cat cartoons) but a surprise, at least to me. Since I was a child, I'd loved Anthony Tabor's simultaneously hilarious and heart-breaking graphic novel classic Cat's Eyes, with its distinctive and impressive artwork (his perspective still wows me). Tabor pulls off a mini story (I resisted "tale") that's both very New Yorkeresque and yet very much of his own style.
Title: The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons by The New Yorker Magazine
Details: Copyright 1992, Random House
Synopsis (By Way of Publisher's Info): "Here are the funniest and most feline cats ever assembled in 101 cartoons, the cream of the cream, from sixty-five years of the New Yorker. "
Why I Wanted to Read It: I've long loved The New Yorker's frequently bizarre, "high-art" cartoons, generally the older the better.
How I Liked It: While I tend to loathe most "collections", the editors have done a tidy job of recognizing the institution of the New Yorker cartoon and maintaining the brand.
The book spans the magazine's storied history (up until that publishing point, anyway) as well as its various degrees of "humor" (including several of the non sequitors for which the magazine is known).
A decent, bite-sized read for fans of (predictably) cats and/or The New Yorker, although given its size and obviously limited scope, this might not be the book you want to give to attempt to convert your friends into appreciation for the art form.
Notable: The book has some legends that one would expect to see (the ever-amazing Charles Addams apparently did a few cat cartoons) but a surprise, at least to me. Since I was a child, I'd loved Anthony Tabor's simultaneously hilarious and heart-breaking graphic novel classic Cat's Eyes, with its distinctive and impressive artwork (his perspective still wows me). Tabor pulls off a mini story (I resisted "tale") that's both very New Yorkeresque and yet very much of his own style.