Caricature Books

You can't help but love Snoopy! This is a wonderful collection of Peanuts philosophies. This is a gem!

This collection is a HILARIOUS look at aging! I saw this book at a book fair, thumbed through a few pages, and laughed until I cried! I bought several copies and gave them as birthday presents to family and friends. They loved it just as much as I did. If you like The Far Side, you'll LOVE this collection of cartoons.

"Private Breger" (by cartoonist, David Breger) I believe it was called, and it was a series of perhaps 50 or 60 cartoons about life in the army, more likely in "boot camp"! I owned this book in the '40's, during WWII, some 50+ years ago, and it was absolutely hilarious. Don't know if this is the same David Breger, but if it is and if such a book is still available, I would dearly love to buy it. I still try to describe some of the sight gags that were in the book to my golfing buddies, but nobody's ever heard of him. Please let me know if he's the same little guy who looked like "Arnold Stang with horn-rims and freckles". Geez, he was funny!!!

Frank McLaughlin is an artist with years of professional experience drawing such DC Comics characters as Superman, Batman, and the Flash. Mike Gold is a DC Comics editor and director of Development for DC Comics, as well as director of Chicago Comicon. In How To Draw Monsters For Comics, McLaughlin and Gold effectively collaborate to provide aspiring comic book and graphic novel artists a step-by-step guide to creating flying monsters, vampires, ghouls, human/chrome hybrids, and more. The cartooning techniques reveal the processes of successfully drawing eyes, mouths and gestures, as well as the use of lighting and backgrounds. How To Draw Monsters For Comics is a single, comprehensive, "how to" instructional that will prove an invaluable resource for anyone trying to break into the specialized art field of comic book or graphic novel illustration.

This book is amazing with color and pictures. The detail is amazing for first time drawers, i recommend this book for all artist who love to draw X-men.

As a long-time collector of the Howard Huge cartoons, I am pleased to recommend this funny and endearing collection to all Saint Bernard lovers. As only an experienced owner can do, Bill Hoest has captured the essence of the Saint Bernard personality, as well as the joys and complexities of living with a gentle giant!

This book is a must-have for anyone with an interest in cartooning and humorous illustration in general. I had the first edition of this paperback (published in 1973)... that edition has a different cover and shows up in used bookstores occasionally. The chapters about Jack Davis and Mort Drucker were great... two very good Mad Magazine artists (along with Sergio Aragones and Al Jaffee). But my all-time favorite part of this book is the chapter that focuses on Bob Jones. Bob is a great funny animal (anthropomorphic animal) illustrator who created the cartoon Exxon Tiger (also known as the Esso Tiger), a famous icon in America and around the world. There are several great pictures of the Exxon tiger in this book including a model sheet with different expressions! This part of the book alone is great because it's so hard to find pictures of the cartoon tiger like unless you go to the Exxon web site or find old advertisements for Exxon/Esso with pictures of the tiger. In fact, you can go to the Exxon (or ExxonMobil) web site [...] and enter "tiger" in the search field for info from the company about the character. Exxon introduced its cartoon tiger in 1964 as the star of its 'Put a Tiger in Your Tank' ad campaign. (May be hard to find cartoon images now because of the Kelloggs vs. Exxon Lawsuit lost by Exxon in 2000). Anyway, other artists featured in this book are Federico Fellini, Paul Coker, Will Eisner, Jules Feiffer, Gerry Gersten, Johnny Hart, Donald Reilly, Norman Rockwell, Arnold Roth and Maurice Sendack.

I read this book some years ago, and was very amused by the format of storytelling. If da Vinci had ever written his own biography, I imagine it would be very much along the lines of Mr. Steadman's version of the events in Leonardo's life. Hilarious, gross, intelligent, and with fantastic illustrations throughout. Considering Leonardo da Vinci's fascination with caricatures in his own art, he would definitely love this book.

Feel like having a bit of whimsy? I bought "Impressionistic Cats" a number of years ago and have thoroughly enjoyed the art, the cats, and the cats in art. Definite whimsy! Might I add, the art is good enough to frame and hang.

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This book is an amusing adaptation of Impressionistic art by making all the characters in each painting cats that resemble the characters. However, Susan Herbert has another explanation. She says that Professor Harvey Fishbone, a devout cat lover, collected these paintings and kept them undisclosed, allowing only cats to view them. Now his descendants are releasing these fine paintings for the world to see.

Oh, how I wish you could see the print opposite the title page. It is called "after Edgar Degas Absinthe 1876" and had me belly laughing. If you have seen the painting/print, maybe you remember the abysmal look on the poor woman's face. She has been drinking absinthe, the bane of drink at that time. The artist Susan Herbert, who has several other books with cats in the paintings, is quite talented. Not only does she capture the essence and detail--well, impression, ok, the look of the original painting, she knows her cats. You should see this look of the absinthe-drinking cat! Woe and begone! Come any closer and my claws will have your eyes. Something in that line.

"After Mary Cassatt The Loge c. 1882" is quite the opposite. Instead of stark and dreary, this is all sweetness and light. Two lovely young kitty women sit in the lower balcony, awaiting the opera. Ah, "after Paul Gauguin Tahitian Women 1891." Lovely, lovely cats, solid, earth-bound maidens of Tahiti. Here's "after Vincent Van Gogh, Self-Portrait, 1889," the one with the swirly turquoise background and Vincent's red hair and beard, only this "Vincent" is a marmalade tabby.

One of my favorites: "after Claude Monet The Promenade (Madame Monet and her Son) 1875" showing Mrs. Manet swirling around with her umbrella. Monet/Susan has captured the moment with swirling skirts and puffs of wind made by the twisting umbrella. Ah, the magic of the impression. Lovely Mrs. Cat Monet. Another favorite: "after Berthe Morisot the Cradle 1872" showing a reflective moment of a mother cat after putting down the kitty baby, who has her little paw against her little fur cheek. The sweetness!

And a last print: "after Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec In the Salon at the Rue des Moulins 1894" is a study of night cats waiting for toms, sitting in garish colors and velvets of the waiting area. The moment is everything. I do believe that will do.

These cartoons are funny, and the book is great for lawyers or for anyone. Nice gift for someone who has "everything," or for an unusual gift for an office party.