Caricature Books

This is a very thurough book, with detailed information about each photomontage appearing in AIZ by John Heartfield. The book seems to be the first to provide translations of the German text on each AIZ, and offers some, but not always, enough information about each work by putting it in the historical context it originally appeared.

If you're studying Heartfield, this book is well worth your time.

This book could be used as a suplement in Middle School Social Studies.It does give good visual presentation of different hair styles, clothing, and armor during medieval times.The level of drawing skills I feel would be to hard for lower elementary students.

With its reproduction of over 50 rare prints from the 19th century, Harold Holzer's LINCOLN SEEN & HEARD is a rare treasure trove of Lincoln images. Holzer, author of several studies on Abraham Lincoln, offers rich biographical and historical details during his visual and textual analysis.

Holzer's study of Lincoln's public image in iconography and language is logically divided into thematic chapters. In his study of the comtemporary visual iconography of Abraham Lincoln, Holzer examines images of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator and as the Commander in Chief. He also analyses images of Lincoln's assissination and compares prints of Lincoln and the Confederacy's Jefferson Davis. In his discussion of Lincoln's language. Holzer addresses Lincoln's impromtu oratory as well as his two most famous texts, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address. Holzer's book is well-balanced and richly documented. Very readable, this book should interest both historical scholars and general readers.

There is no humor quite like that found in Mad Magazine. It is always funny, occasionally spiteful, often biting, sometimes sarcastic, and generally contains an enormous amount of truth. In other words, it accurately represents humans and their foibles. This collection is "dedicated" to fathers, how their actions affect our lives, and how they can be so absurd.
I enjoyed this collection of essays and cartoons. For better or worse, I occasionally recognized myself and how my daughter (I am a dad) and I interact. Some of the best humor is that which makes us laugh and recognize and reevaluate some of our actions and character traits. This book contains that kind of humor.

Dress it up all you want call it humor, call it a cartoon, call it what ever you want the polictics of hate is still the politics of hate be it from the right or the left. It just appears the left is more juvenile in its presentation. For humor with a different slant and a few more facts give the book Liberal Fascism (ISBN: 978-0-385-51184-1) a read if you can bring yourself to hear a different view. If not the book may be talking about you.

As a devoted MAD reader, I immediately purchased this volume when I saw it was available. I have fond memories of the MAD ad satires of my youth, and a cumulative look at this grand tradition proved to be irresistible.

MADVERTISING does offer a very enjoyable retrospective at my chuckles of yesteryear, as well as material that preceded and followed my subscription days. Naturally, the key to enjoying many of these ad satires is the witty ad copy that guys like Nick Meglin and Dick DeBartolo came up with. But despite the generous size of this book, time and again I was thwarted in my attempt to actually READ their lampoons. That's because the ads are sometimes reproduced herein at a fraction of their original size, reducing their words to micro-fonts. Dang it!

But this book does allow us to give a "hats off" to some of the magazine's illustrators and designers. Bob Clarke and (Frank) Kelly Freas in particular created artwork for MAD that was genuinely superior to the art accompanying the "real" ads of their day. In this regard, MADVERTISING does a good job reproducing their extremely clever visuals.

Cartoons are used for many things, from humor to ridicule, and in some cases the artist attempts to do both, which was the point of many of the cartoons in this book. The collection demonstrates a constant in the American political process. When a significant social change is proposed, those on both sides of the debate tend to use extremes in their arguments. Those opposed tend to be the worst, and their opposition generally begins with: "This is the first step to {fill in an outrageous/illogical consequence here}, so it must be prevented."
This approach can be seen in this collection of cartoons, where the expansion of woman's rights is depicted as the first step to a society where the males are pathetically subservient to the females. One cartoon has an all-female jury acquitting a male defendant "on account of his good looks." Of course, none of the dire consequences have happened, although it is very interesting to see the historical record of how cartoonists viewed the glacial political and social process that finally led to women getting the right to vote followed by full legal rights.
It is one of the greatest ironies that the bloodiest conflicts in the history of the human race provided the impetus for woman to achieve equal rights. When the men were off fighting world wars I & II, women entered the work force in massive numbers and proved that they could do the jobs previously thought too difficult for the "weaker sex." Once the wars were over, many women did not easily abandon their newfound freedoms.
The cartoons in this book are a history lesson in how absurd arguments were used for many years to deny women their natural rights and in that respect it is interesting. However, the absurd nature of the cartoons means that they are interesting in the historical sense, but in no way are they funny.

I have used this book as a frequent resource for patients who are undergoing cancer treatment. I use it with the staff when the need arises. The many different cartoons always bring a smile or two.

Marmaduke is such a loveable dog. Reading the comics in his namesake always make me want to have a great dane too. This book is an older book, with 92 single frame comics or funnies as seen in the daily paper. Marmaduke has been running his household for nearly fifty years now.

I think this book would make a fantastic gift to the child or adult who loves dogs, or loves to draw cute characters. As a teacher I encourage my students to embrace their talents. Some are great with a pencil or pen. Encouraging them to make these little single frame comics are perfect outlets for their creativity. They also go well with language arts and communication arts lessons because if the punch lines are whited out, students can come up with some really great punch lines of their own.

Quick easy read, fun for all. Definitely a perfect addition to any leisure reading collection. I'll be donating this one to my local doctor's office. Hopefully it will find many loving readers there.

your must read one..special for young kids that very early on their ages..to start a brighter day..