Caricature Books

The book I love. A love the Sopranos the best, that is my fravorest show on earth.

I love MAD books . . . the greatest spoof of American culture! But this one is hot . . anything related to mobsters is hot!

I love maxine ,I have all of her dolls ...several of each in fact i buy every one i find and I drive for miles looking for her. I love her shirts her car cookie jar nutcracker globes pictures in the calander ect everything i find my husband buys for me there should be more dolls all hoildays all seaons summer in a swimsuit would be great i love her my baby loves her she is wonderful on papertowels tissues pillows everywhere please give more lots more.love lori and cherub

First of all, I love Maxine. I give her cards for every occasion...well, most occasions that is. She is just so open, to the point...sort of like "open mouth insert foot", yet she does not care. I bought this book for my mother when my dad was in the hospital. I thought it would make her laugh & I was right. It really helped to take the tension off. I guess you have to appreciate Maxine for her "sour" attitude. She has a come back for every thing and in this doggie dog world it sometimes pays off to be a little like her.

John McPherson's material is great - be prepared to laugh! He has great creativity and quite an imagination!

I Could not stop laughing from start to finish! Great Book, Great Price and Quick delivery! Thanks

As a child I loved my Mother Goose rhymes in my Child Craft Books and the illustrations. As an adult I continue to love the Silly Ones! The cartoons with this book are an extra added feature! This is a great book!

Compiled and edited by Bobbye S. Goldstein, Mother Goose On The Loose With Cartoons From "The New Yorker" is a humorous and engaging satire of the classic mother goose nursery rhymes. Chuckle-inducing, thought-provoking cartoons and caricatures spoofing the adventures of Little Bo Peep, the Cow that Jumped Over the Moon, and many more as well as amusing variants of the rhymes themselves comprise this highly enjoyable parody. "When Jack climbed up the beanstalk / A mean giant he did meet, / So Jack slid down the beanstalk / And made a fast retreat!"

Once again, Geary takes a complicated crime and presents it in an understandable -- and very enjoyable & redable -- level.

This is the seventh in a very high-quality series that includes Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, H. H. Holmes, and Charles Guiteau. Think of it as "Classics Illustrated" for adults. Geary's black-and-white crow-quill drawing style fits perfectly his carefully narrated history of the sixty-two days between Lincoln's second Inauguration and his entombment in Springfield, by way of the assassination plot, the unsuccessful attacks on Johnson and Seward, Booth's convenient escape, and his death in Garrett's tobacco barn. I've long thought there was more there than meets the eye, with the focus on the peculiar actions of Stanton, both before and after Ford's Theater, and the author mentions those points in passing, but he sticks pretty close to the official train of events. An excellent piece of work.

My Foolish Heart is a bitter/sweet chuckle for anyone who has lived life. Pendergrast manages to illustrate the inside of all our vulnerable and foolish hearts. You will recognize yourself and know you are not alone. My Foolish Heart is a roadmap for those interested in glancing into this sometimes absurd but mostly human aspect of desire, fantasy, and just plain and simple need for love.

When I saw the cover art, the style looked familiar to me and I realized that James Pendergrast does the drawings that accompany the letters in Rolling Stone. I love his work. It was nice to see the drawings in full color and in this large format. He has a really wonderful sense of humor that manages to be smart and cynical without being overly negative. I think he's really insightful in that way and the drawings make me laugh but also think. I loved this book and I've already sent it to many friends.

This is a one-of-a-kind cartoon book of pigs in various poses and settings that illustrate philosophical and theological viewpoints. It is very clever without being esoteric--the author knows his material well. The cartoons have an innocent simplicity that is arresting and hilarious. I have looked through this book dozens of times, and I still laugh at the pigs, such as "Nietzschean SuperPig" and "Kierkegaardian Pig Demonstrating a Leap of Faith."

It's is sad that his unique book is out-of-print. Try a book search, though; it is worth it!

Douglas Groothuis, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Denver Seminary

This cult classic, well-known among professional philosophers,sketches the history of Western philosophy and theology in a series ofcartoons involving . . . pigs! One meets the Stoic pig, hip-deep in snow, defiantly facing the winds of adversity; the Anglican pig merrily tricylcing along the Via Media; the Rousseauean "noble savage" pig; the Nietzschean Superpig; the Kierkegaardian pig making a leap of faith; and so on. I saw the first edition of this book in a friend's collection over 20 years ago. When it briefly came back into print in 1992, I bought 5 copies, of which I still own 3: one to lend, one to keep, and one which, someday, I might give as a present.

It should be required reading in every Intro to Philosophy course.

This book contains 110 cartoons that have appeared in The New Yorker relating to technology. Most have something to do with computers or the Internet, but faxes, cell phones, and biotechnology also make their appearances. As usual, the cartoons are selected by Robert Mankoff, The New Yorker's cartoon editor.

The book is one of the best collections I have seen of New Yorker cartoons. It also provides Mankoff's best introduction to any of these collections (he usually either doesn't write one, or does less than the minimum), as well as a CD of the cartoons in the book.

I was pleasantly surprised that this collection was done in such a way as to be consistent with technology. Perhaps it is because Mr. Mankoff is a self-confessed technophile. He defends that preference as being better than being a Francophile.

I am tempted to give you all 110 cartoons from the book, but I don't have that much space. Here are a few of my favorites:

Man in room filled with people working at computers talking on the telephone, looking glum -- "No, the computers are up. We're down."

Father to son -- "Go ask your search engine."

Couple on a camping trip holding cell phone -- "Who can we call?"

Couple at a cocktail party -- "You say you love me, but I'm not on your speed dial."

Two dogs operating a computer -- "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."

Two men staring at a fax of a man with a tie pressed across his face -- "My God, there's been a terrible accident in our Chicago office."

"Already my computer is outmoded, but I try to tell myself my computer isn't me."

Deputies watching tracking dogs looking at laptop -- "First, they do an on-line search."

Woman to a small boy in a restaurant -- "I loved your E-mail, but I thought you'd be older."

Man talking to a microwave -- "No, I don't want to play chess. I just want to reheat the lasagna."

Man passing telephone booth holding cell phone -- The booth says "Talk in Private 25 Cents"

Man proposing -- "Marry me, Virginia. My genes are excellent and, as yet, unpatented."

Man in hammock -- "America Off-Line"

Couple in bed -- "Not tonight, hon. It'll just wreak havoc with the motion sensors again."

Wife during wedding ceremony -- "I'm delighted to love, honor, and obey, but I'm keeping my electronic rights."

Buffalo with cell phone -- "I love the convenience, but the roaming charges are killing me."

I think you will have a lot of fun with this book. As you can see, the cartoons take turns making fun of technology, those who are having a hard time with technology, and our fixation with technology.

After you finish having many good laughs, consider how many of these jokes are really insights into problems that need to be solved. For example, how can we know whether we can trust those we exchange e-mails with? Are they who they say they are? In many cases, they are not. Be careful!

I think this is the funniest collection of cartoons yet! It's nice to see the traditional style of The New Yorker cartoons up against modern technology. And, not to mention, it's been a great gift with all the gadget-freak men in my life!! My father has been bringing his to meetings and my boyfriend got one for his Computer Science teacher! Congrats to those who own one.

Hi. I'm Stephen Bolton, the author and cartoonist of the Noonaville books. I'm glad you're looking at this page and reading this review. This of course in not a review in the real sense. Rather it's me talking about my cartoon work. I wanted to do cartoons about simple, everyday sometimes inglorious lives of everyday people. Lives like my own and those of my friends and family I suppose. With the Noonaville books and stories I really wanted to look and life in a medium sized town which is the kind of town I am from. I wanted to look at the people and what they do. How they act and what they say. The parties and barbeques, squabbles, square dances and shops. The type of accidents and incidents that happen everyday when people are together. The books are going well in the UK where I live and do most of Newspaper and magazine work, but I'd love to do better in the States which is really the right place for my stuff. So buy the book(s), it's cool and you'll like it (the second one is out in September). Or if you'd like to stay in touch with what's happening in Noonaville and my other cartoon work, you can visit my site. Just type my name into Yahoo or Google and my site will come up and from there you can contact me by email.

Thanks and I hope you like the books,
Stephen.

This is a really cool book, the cartoons and the story are great! I grew up in a town just like this. I couldn't stop laughing.

L. Brewlow
Brooklyn. NY.

I showed this book to both cat lovers and cat haters, and almost all of them loved this book! The exception would be those who are apathetic to pets, in which case, they don't really care.

Lots of funny illustrations and wishful thinking. It's very much in the style of The Far Side by Gary Larson, and whether you love or hate cats, it's as funny and enjoyable to read as The Far Side.

My only complaint is that it is too short and there aren't more books like these. Great bathroom/lounge reading material.

Well, if you do hate cats, you'll laugh your way through this book of drawings. Placing kitties in perilous predicaments is the objective here. Let your mind do the walking. Great book for relaxing with (yes, really).