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Belly laughs! As funny as it gets. Agree with reviewer above - don't eat or drink anything while reading!

Callahan is outrageously funny and politically incorrect. His work nails many current social issues on the head, especially our continuing tendency to patronize people with disabilities. But beware, these cartoons makes the Simpson's or South Park look like Sunday school humor. Don't eat or drink anything when you read this or you'll be wearing it by the 4th cartoon.

I received a DVD of a Callahan based show in Canada. The DVD was wonderfully politically incorrect!

The Best of the Harveyville Fun Times packs in a great deal of research. Culled from some of the best articles in the fanzines history, many pieces focus on the various Harvey characters in many different media; television, films, and comics. Indeed, you could spend many hours here, but sections of the material can be slightly repetitious since some show up again in various articles.

While a great deal of scholarly research has been done on Carl Bark's Uncle Scrooge character, this is one of the first editions done on the Casper and Richie Rich characters. In fact Mr. Christopher Barat makes some interesting comparisons to the comic book adventures of Casper and Richie with Disney's richest duck. He also does a great job summarazing and analysing many of the Richie Rich and Casper stories while looking for originality and other creative highlights in these hundreds of stories, which can get very maudlin after a while.

Something that caught my attention is when Richie Rich, who has always been faithful to his girlfriend, Gloria, has a unique encounter with the antagonist Mayda Munny in a dream sequence. Hmm. . . Maybe Richie is a bit more complicated than we thought. Anyway,it took Mr. Baret to draw this to my attention.

I also have to give Mr. Baret credit for using the word, "discombulate." Hey! Anybody who can use a word like that is all right in my book.

The text amply has interviews with the surviving Harvey company personal,episode guides to various Richie Rich tv programs, histories on Sad Sack (a favorite of mine), and volunteered art from a variety of people.

If there is a second edition, it would be nice to include an episode guide to the ninties Casper series, (which is up on the website) and a few other odds and ends. Another possible article could be on the best Richie and Casper stories that might have had a "bittersweet" feel to them. I also thought there was something poignant with Casper and Wendy's relationship due to the fact that Casper was ultimately a ghost while longing to be human. Wendy, however, was still a human girl, though a sorceress, which must have made things difficult for the two of them at times.

And on a totally trivial note, I'd also love to hear a bit more the short-lived, "Fruitman" comic from the sixites?

While this book might not be for everyone. It's essential to comic book historians who need to know there was more to to the industry that just superheroes and Disney. Invaluable alone for the Sad Sack material.

Sincerely,

James Smith III
carolyn@dia.net

Is it too self-serving to review my own book? I think not. I just wanted to let you know that I am really excited about this as my goal for a number of years was to publish a book. I know that everyone is not necessarily a comic book fan and especially not a Harvey Comics fan, but if you are, please give this a read. I have worked on this book over a 16 year period, and am very proud of the results. Also, please let me know what you think by posting your own review here.

When I wrote this review, Mark Arnold, editor of this book, had the only other review of it. But I'm glad he reviewed his own book, which he may have been somewhat hesitant to do, because he certainly made me want to read it (along with the blurb from Scott Shaw! an astounding artist whose work I have followed for a long time). Arnold has, as they say, some chops for writing this book, as he for some sixteen years has edited a Harvey Comics fanzine, The Harveyville Fun Times. This book is called The Best of the Harveyville Fun Times because that's what it is: a whopping 11 X 8 color cover paperback weighing in at nearly 400 pages of reprints of the THFT.

At first I felt a bit ripped off since, had one been a long time subscriber, one would already have all these issues. But then I thought, "Why go to the trouble to rewrite the whole book from the fanzines rather than just reprinting them? Obviously Mark had the same idea. Great minds think alike, and so do we.

This is the best sort of browsing book, jammed with about a zillion pictures as well as Harvey trivia approached from every angle. Who knew Jerry Lewis did Sad Sack movies? Where did my favorite Harvey comic star, Hot Stuff, come from? What's the relation of the Famous/ Paramount cartoons to the comics?

I myself eagerly await each issue of a Little Lulu fanzine called The Hollywood EcLLectern, and I can't think of anything better than if all those issues were bound together in a book. What a happy thought that Mark Arnold has been there and done that with the big H comics, and even better that I can kick back with this enthralling volume and another H (Hefeweisen) and delve into the Harvey Fun Times.

This latest entry in this venerable series is one of the best--and the most inclusive, too.

Thankfully, it includes many more cartoons from foreign cartoonists. It's wonderful to enjoy an international cartooning perspective.

This is the Fourth Edition of Cagle Books I have purchased. This one in my Humble Opinion is the Best yet, and that is Due to amount of Cartoons included herein. This one has more cartoons per page than the 2005-2007 Editions and contains a few more pages as well. Hundreds of Top Political Cartoonists are featured, and Subjects like The Iraq War are right here next to Paris Hilton and O.J. Simpson.

If you have an interest in the Issues of the Day and enjoy Great Cartoons. This Book should be a part of your Library..This is an Excellent Purchase...Five Stars !!!

This book was very entertaining and a great collection of pollitical cartoons. Categorized so that the reader can look at various cartoons about a specific topic (such as the iPhone), this book was easily accessible. Sarcastic, humerous, and in some cases very true, (although not necessarily complete) this is indeed a great collection of some of the best cartoons of 2008's biggest issues.

GATES '99 is good fun. The author really captures a lot of the inside quirks of Microsoft. Plus, Bill looks great in the outfits!

This book is a riot. It's especially funny to see Bill Gates in his underwear!

Hilarious! You'll see Bill in a whole new light after being able to dress him as Janet Reno. This would fit perfectly in the holiday stocking of your favorite Microsoft drone.

Bizarro No. 10 by Dan Piraro is one of the funniest cartoon books I've ever read. It's the perfect book to keep in your purse or next to the toilet when you have a few moments to kill time.

What a great book! It kept me entertained and I didn't want to put it down. The cartoons are reminiscent of The Far Side.

This is another typically genius work from Dan Piraro. This guy's work is most often compared to The Far Side because of the single-panel format, but this is even a bit weirder, as hard as that is to believe. Some of the jokes will go over your head, but others will make you laugh out loud (I usually don't laugh out loud while reading, but Bizarro books have often made me do so). This is a great coffee table book and is fun to read with a bunch of friends. Pick this one up and you'll be hooked! Highly recommended!

Almost no topic is taboo for cartoonist Stephen Notley and his alter-ego (and also possibly his id), Bob the Angry Flower. If you've ever found yourself rooting for a movie villain, you will identify with Bob's schadenfreude style of humor. If you've ever been frightened by a scary movie, you will find a soothing balm in Bob's transformation of horror movie premises into palliative ridicule. Though not all material is appropriate for all ages (Bob really does mercifully, yet gruesomely, kill a terminally ill dog), Bob should be required reading for a new generation of budding teenage anti-establishmentarians.

A local alternative newspaper picked up Bob the Angry Flower a year ago and I got hooked. The concept and character is just amusing before the strip even starts. This book has some of my favorite strips so far including:

Your Oppressors
Battlecruiser Omega
Buy Everything Day
Wholly Communion

This book also includes annotations on each strip from the author.

My only complaint is the book's printing paper could be of higher quality.

I completely disagree with the last reviewer, Donald W. Stein. Well, except for his adoration of Bob. My favorite strips were:

Destroy the Apostrophy (a Bob classic)
Kerry Wins!
Cookie Mines
World Without Meat

And the paper quality didn't bother me at all. Nice to have all of Stephen Notley's cartoons from the last couple of years all in one place.

This is a must purchase for any selfrespecting Bob fan! And a good introduction for everybody else.

Okay, so this little volume (number 4 in the Far Side series of collections) is "outdated." As far as I'm concerned, however, these cartoons are timeless! Bride of the Far Side is probably the best of Larson's works. How is this determined? In large part, it is the "Schmidt scale"... the percentage of Larson works found on the walls and doors of practicing scientists from a particular volume (cartoons used in lectures are added to this scale).

Remember these classics?

"And now Edgar's gone... Something's going on around here."

"Early vegetarians returning from the kill."

"Well, what the?... I THOUGHT I smelled something."

"Wait a minute! Isn't anyone here a real sheep?"

And my personal all-time favorite:

"Late again!... This better be good!"

Reading Bride Of The Far Side made me remember how great Gary Larson's daily dose mentally deranged cartoons were. I grew up reading his strip and boy do I miss him. In this collection of about two-hundred Far Sides, he carries on his tradition of good-natured insanity. Almost every cartoon in the book made me laugh, grin or at least go, "Eeeeewwww!" More than a few also made me stop and think. See, Larson is, in his better moments (which describes most of his moments) also a man of profound insight and deep thought. You have to keep your mind on its toes (yuck) to follow his punchlines. I do sincerely wish he'd make a return to the daily papers, or at least be more forthcoming with brand new material released in book form. I'd love to see that. Until the coming of that glorious day, I'll keep myself entertained with his '80's and '90's anthologies like Bride Of The Far Side, which is a truly awesome book!

Bride of The Far Side, the fourth in the Far Side series, is a must have for any true fan of The Far Side. Packed with 200 cartoons, this book is hilarious. I have read this book dozens of times over the years and it seems to grow funnier each and every time. All of the classic, warped animals and insects and bizarre human characters are contained in this collection. If you do not have this one in your Far Side collection yet then add it to your shopping cart right away. You will not be disappointed. It is truly a gem of a book.

I got this book for my daughter this Christmas as a followup to another Bumperboy book she liked. She says this is awesome. There are some sad moments, but she likes it very much, and especially loves Bumperpup.

I missed the first Bumperboy adventure (Bumperboy Loses His Marbles), but stumbled across this second installment at this year's Small Press Expo. I flipped through it, loved the artwork, and figured it might make a nice gift for a friend's young son. Well, the kid's going to have to do without, because Bumperboy is staying with me!

This is a fantastic graphic novel that is simple enough to be appropriate for all ages, and yet witty and weird enough for adults to love. Bumperboy is a friendly young lad who wanders around with his dog, Bumperpup, getting in adventures. The world they live in has these kind of wormholes that transport them to new and fantastic places. In this story, one of these portals takes them a talking mountain and the small creatures who live near it. Bumperboy discovers that someone is kidnapping the small creatures, disrupting the fragile ecosystem and threatening the mountain's life. Bumperboy and Bumperpup enlist the aid of a snooty inventor bird (apparently a nemesis of some kind from the first book) to halt the dastardly machinations of the kidnapper (who has a very Snidely Whiplash air to him).

It's simple but effective stuff, with lots of cool little quirks. For example. Bumperpup speaks in his own pictographic language. And there are several oddball characters who Bumperboy consults over the course of the story. The artwork is highly evocative in its simplicity and cleanliness, maintaining a warm tone throughout. The layout is very straightforward and everything about this makes it a great first graphic novel for young (and old) readers. It's somewhat reminiscent of the "Owly" books, but with a cooler, weirder vibe. Top notch stuff -- more please!

I really liked the expressiveness of bumperboy in the simple black and white drawings. It was a cute story, but it was the fundamental nature of bumperboy that just makes it so appealing. and bumperpup is way cool too. I went to see the display of debbie huey's work at the cartoon museum in SF, but was sadly disappointed to see such a small display. I'd really like to see more of her work.

Secrets are revealed as the final battle takes place! Eriol, Spinel Sun, Ruby Moon, and their plans reveal themselves. In order to save the town, her family, her friends, and her guardians, Sakura must find a way to change the last two cards into her own. Can she do it or will everyone sleep forever?

One of the best CCS books ever a a must read for any fan! Read to find out what happens to Sakura in the second to last installment of Cardcaptor Sakura! Enjoy!

In this volume, Sakura has to have one final battle against Clow Reed. It confuses her, because she has no idea why he would want to fight her, since he chose her to be Master of the Clow. This book is very interesting, because this is where Sakura finds out everything about Clow Reed's reasons for fighting her, as well has the connections that other people she knows have to him. This book has a lot of Yue, who is one of my favorites, for totally shallow reasons. Reading about Syaoran Li's continued hidden love for Sakura is also a lot of fun. It would probably be good to have read some of the previous books in the series, although I certainly haven't been reading them in order. I definitely recommend this volume.

I'm assuming that you have bought the first volumes of the Master of the Clow series if you are buying this one, hence SPOILERS for earlier parts of the series. Okay!

In this volume, the last-but-one of the Cardcaptor Sakura series, we get the conclusion of Sakura's outward battles to convert the Clow Cards into Star Cards, and the climactic battle between herself and Eriol (who we already know is the one causing problems for her).

As well as the battle (which is pretty spectacular- but then, this IS Clamp we're talking about), we find out the reasons behind what Eriol was doing, and a major plot twist that was not in the anime- this was something that caught me completely by surprise, as I'd seen the anime before reading the manga.

Personally, I don't understand why this twist wasn't put into the anime, but oh well, I really appreciated it here. ^_^

There is some development of the ongoing 'situation' between Syaoran and Sakura as well, and the ending of this volume leaves you waiting for a conclusion of all of Sakura's- and the other characters'- inner, abstract battles and worries, now that the more tangible ones have been finished with.

It's the anticipation of these other loose ends of the series- the relationships and couplings that have been previously hinted at or developed- that will leave you dying for the final volume (it did with me, anyway), so I'd advise you to get volume 6 at the same time as this one, if you can.

There isn't really much else to say: the artwork is just as beautiful as all the rest of this series, and there is just as much cuteness, though perhaps a little more action and seriousness compared to other volumes in the series, since this *does* cover the 'final battle', as it were.

Ah, and the bonus card in this one is of Clow Reed, in case you were wondering.

If you're following this manga series, you certainly can't go without this volume. A must-have for all Clamp and Sakura fans. ^_^

I bought and read this book all the way back in 1983.
At the time I was most struck by its willingness to allege
that various Supreme Court decisions had been outrageous
MISinterpretations of the constitution. One normally associates
that view point with conservative "originalist" or "strict
construction" doctrine, but this book made -- a decade or
two ahead of its time, apparently -- that it was conservatives
who were ignoring the 9th amendment (rights retained by the
people despite not being enumerated in the constitution) and
the privileges&immunities clause. Today, Daniel Farber is
making the same case in "Retained by the People", and
Randy Barnett has come close in "Restoring the Lost Constitution".
Lurio was ahead of the both and far more accessible.

If only all learning were like this! This wonderful little book deserves to be a classic. If you're looking to learn about the Constitution or just brush up on it, "Cartoon Guide" is a hilarious and painless way to do it. (Or if you just want to have some fun.) The text is well-written and humorous, and the illustrations are uproarious. I believe the book would be appropriate as a text or at least a supplement for high school courses and basic college courses; if I were choosing a book on the Constitution for such a course, this would certainly be it.

The entire text of the constitution is included in this book with a serious cartoon narrative explaining both what is written and the historical reasons each portion of text was put into the constitution and its amendments. That history (including how we almost had a President Burr in 1800 and a President Tilden in 1876) helps making the constitution come alive. This is a good book both for people of all ages that need to learn about the constitution and for people who enjoy reading about a serious subject written with a light-hearted perspective.