The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons
by Robert Mankoff (Editor)
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Welcome to The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons, a timeless tribute to the peerless power of the literary landscape. In 104 drawings, each of them certified by experts to be worth a thousand words (and some of them quite amusing), the essence of reading, writing, publishing, and shelving books is explored in all its glory and absurdity, from the stunning and sublime to the purple and pretentious. Here is Emma Bovary shrugging off those pesky bouts with existential boredom (on the tennis show more court), Dickens' fateful encounter with a martini (olive or twist?), and T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" thoughtfully rewritten for the Beavis and Butt-Head market ("April sucks"). Here is a long-awaited and wholly unprecedented comic takedown of that loftiest of all cultural arenas, the world of belles lettres. Here, finally, are dead-on portraits and eye-opening ruminations on all things bookish, writerly, and readerly, courtesy of The New Yorker's renowned stable of cartoonists. In the bestselling tradition of such classics as The New Yorker Book of Lawyer Cartoons and The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons; The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons is manna straight from bookworm heaven. show lessTags
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If you love books and reading as I do, this is the best picture book you could have! Many talented cartoonists make fun of so many topics in literature, readers, libraries, etc. This is a great gift book too!
A fine collection of literary cartoons. Some of them I had to stretch to see the literature/book reference but most had an obvious connection. There were a lot of cartoons about rejection letters and first time novelists though. There were some funny cartoons but nothing that made me more than smile.
A friend sent me this book as part of a care package. This book is a collection of cartoons that all relate to literature in some way. Most were amusing, but a few fell flat for me.
I LOVE this book!
fave has to be James Joyce's to-do list.
fave has to be James Joyce's to-do list.
Great fun to read when stuck home with the flu. Favorites of mine are #11, 18, 50, 61, & 72.
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Author Information
Bob Mankoff became The New Yorker's cartoon editor in 1997. He is also the founder and president of the Cartoon Bank, a division of The New Yorker, which maintains the internet's only searchable cartoon archive. Bob Mankoff was a cartoonist for The New Yorker for twenty years and is currently the cartoon editor for the magazine. He founded the show more online Cartoon Bank, which has every cartoon since the magazine's founding. He is the author of the book How about Never - Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 2000
- First words
- "What the hell ever happened to the old-fashioned love story?"
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"We have a calendar based on the book, stationery based on the book, an audio tape of the book, and a videotape of the movie based on the book, but we don't have the book."
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, Graphic Novels & Comics
- DDC/MDS
- 741.5973 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Drawing Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips History, geographic treatment, biography North American United States (General)
- LCC
- NC1428 .N47 — Fine Arts Drawing. Design. Illustration Drawing. Design. Illustration Pictorial humor, caricature, etc.
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 343
- Popularity
- 91,755
- Reviews
- 5
- Rating
- (3.90)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 2
- ASINs
- 1
