Cartoons Books

This book should be considered a combination of art/animation history,as well as a bible for Felix fans!

John Canemaker has the rare gift of bringing the human side of great animation to life. He is at the top of his form in this book, which follows the story of Felix the Cat from his creation by Otto Messmer through the present day. Very highly recommended for anyone interested in Animation in any form whatsoever.

An excellent book filled with early pictures of Felix the Cat. A must for anyone (like me) who has an interest in early animation. In the book are interesting facts about the first comic superhero that was born about 65 years before Bart Simpson. Did you know that Walt Disney admitted to stealing some of the way Mickey Mouse looked from old drawings of Felix the Cat? I have found this this black-and-white coffee table book very useful in my research for my Felix the Cat web page. (http://w3.nai.net/~eifert)

Canemaker takes the reader through the amazing roller coaster ride that is the career of Felix the Cat. From the shady past of producer Pat Sullivan, to the brilliant career of Otto Messmer, this is a great read. Complete with rarely seen Felix memorabilia, this book has it all. It is just too bad that there aren't more books like Canemaker's out there for the dyed-in-the-wool fan. Pick it up!

Very enjoyable, loving, entertaining and a definate for cat lovers. I just need to know where I can purchase the book?
Please email me that information. Thank you.

My brother and I fell on the ground laughing hysterically at the illustrations and captions--although this was 9 years ago
we still get a good laugh out of it. We almost got kicked out of the bookstore for disturbing the others.

As a life-long cat LOVER, I was suprised to find myself laughing hysterically at nearly every page in this book. The pictures and the light-hearted text are too cute and silly to be taken as malicious. The best advice - wait.

I got this book up at a used book store, I love it! It's hilarious, and I have to keep telling my mom not to let our siamese cat see it. It's one of my 3 books I always have on hand, and I read it all the time. My fave exits are turkey and microwave. Makes a good coffee table book, and a good gift, cat-lover or cat-hater. Just DON'T get any ideas! Have fun!

What more could parents ask for than a book which combines healthy snacking, family bonding and learning? This is the most original book on the shelves. The illustrations are entertaining and make me laugh, I can't put this book away!

Clever way to mix together entertainment and education.
Excellent book. Outstanding illustrations.

What a wonderful book to help children learn the alphabet. A very clever use of food and football - all children love pretzels. The introduction is very poignant and heartwarming and its nice to know the young man is healthy and well.

A fun, clever and entertaining book that will bring kids and their parents closer together. The diagrams showing exactly where to bite the pretzels make all the difference. Be sure to read the author's introduction. It's a poignant and heartwarming account of how she and her son came up with the original idea.

What a great comic strip this was! It always gave me quite a chuckle, and still does through the books, Suburban Cowgirls (the book), and A Fistful of Credit Cards (the book). Guess the two creators of this strip had bigger fish to fry. It was certainly great while it lasted. I ordered these books used and gave them as Christmas presents.

Hey Kathy Couldn't read P O Box. Look me up in Plymouth book under Lee. Write or call. J.

Hey Kathy Couldn't read P O Box. Look me up in Plymouth book under Lee. Write or call. J.

Hi Janet, get in touch with me. I love both of your books, lost touch with you. Write to me at P.O. Box in Hanover...Kathy (& Katy)!

I don't own this, but have 5 or 6 issues of the original (er, vol 2) and they are "hilariously funny". They're kind of like the MST3K of old goofy comics. The insanity is nigh-insurmountable. I only wish there were more grostesquely lavish, indulgent illustrations to go along with every sentence... (wait, they said "more art" !) @! presently... KER-BUY!!! (will update with a proper review)

This is a deftly presented overview of some of the quirkier artifacts of our popular culture. I can remember quite clearly when I was a kid, reading under the covers, way after my bedtime, the tale of how Superman's pal, Jimmy Olsen, was transformed into a giant turtle. When I got done with it, I tilted my head in newfound bemusement. Yeah, it's something of an epiphany when you realize that you really CAN waste your time even when you're eight years old. This slim volume (nowhere near long enough) also shows that it doesn't matter, comics are still fun.

The same review printed twice is not two customer reviews. That said, this is a terrifically entertaining book, written with love for its subject (think PSYCHOTRONIC as opposed to GOLDEN TURKEY AWARDS) and even, or especially, fun for somebody who might have been "too old" to read JIMMY OLSEN, etc. the first time around. Other people's nostalgia is a gas!!!

This is a deftly presented overview of some of the quirkier artifacts of our popular culture. I can remember quite clearly when I was a kid, reading under the covers, way after my bedtime, the tale of how Superman's pal, Jimmy Olsen, was transformed into a giant turtle. When I got done with it, I tilted my head in newfound bemusement. Yeah, it's something of an epiphany when you realize that you really CAN waste your time even when you're eight years old. This slim volume (nowhere near long enough) also shows that it doesn't matter, comics are still fun.

Liza Donnelly has written a great book, a book I have been waiting for. I'm embarrassed to say it's been out a while and I've just discovered it... but Funny Ladies is well researched, well-written, funny and enlightening. The history of women cartoonists at the New Yorker follows the history of women in the 20th century, and reading this book is and eye-opener on both levels. I was thrilled to learn more about cartoonists I'd heard of and discover ones I had not. And learning more about the founders of the New Yorker, Harold Ross and Jane Grant, plus the role cartoon editors there have played over time, is enlightening.

A great book, great read, great find.

Thanks to the cartoonist/author. There are precious few of us, and I'm so happy you preserved this portion of our history.

"The New Yorker" is universally considered to be the best magazine and it regularly runs cartoons. Unlike many other cartoons noted for their in-your-face approach, the message of the cartoons in "The New Yorker" is generally very subtle. Many great cartoonists have had their work featured in the magazine, and some of them were women. This is their story.
It is one that in general is concurrent with what happened in the rest of society. In the early years, there were few career opportunities open to women and their work was evaluated in different ways. The twenties were a time of advancement, but the hard reality of the depression in the thirties had an overall negative effect on the status of women. Once the Second World War began, women were needed in every capacity, so their stock once again rose, only to fall back down after the war and into the reactionary fifties. Finally, the overall advancements in the role of women in the sixties and seventies destroyed all barriers to women cartoonists.
Through it all, the pioneers struggled with their drawings and captions, using them to make important statements about the world that existed around them. It was a world that they struggled against, yet eventually emerged triumphant through the success of those of their gender that succeeded them. As much as anything, this book is a chronicle of the emergence of women from the "pedestal of assumed inferiority" to one where their work is appreciated, respected and expected.

This is not a cartoon collection, it's a history - but it does include cartoons by every one of the cartoonists mentioned. It slightly before the founding of The New Yorker, with how the magazine came to be, and how Ross's independent wife (her name was Jane Grant, and she didn't change it when she got married) was an influence on what he expected the readership of the magazine to be, and who he would accept as writers and illustrators.

Some of the highlights: learning more about Helen Hokinson, much of whose stuff is still funny; the sad fate of Mary Petty. There was a little too much about Donnelly herself in there, but I guess I can understand the impulse. This really did bring out some of the developments in the glass ceiling for particular kinds of women artists.

When one thinks about WW2, and women filling jobs that used to be men's, one thinks of Rosie the Riveter - until I read this book, it had not occurred to me that women also filled the men's jobs as cartoonists at The New Yorker! The section on the war era includes some of the funniest cartoons.

Of course Roz Chast is included in here - quite possibly my favorite contemporary cartoonist. I greatly enjoyed the details about how she got into cartooning, and seeing how changes in her own stages of life have made it into her cartoons.

I think the book as a whole is the same sort of mix as the magazine - interesting articles, punctuated by cartoons. So if you like the magazine, you should enjoy the book!

FUNNY LADIES: THE NEW YORKER'S GREATEST WOMEN CARTOONISTS AND THEIR CARTOONS could easily have been featured in our 'Cartoons and Graphic Novels' section, but is reviewed here for its ability to appeal beyond the usual confines of the cartoonist fan's world. Over the decades a growing core of female artists has been creating New Yorker cartoons weekly: Liza Donnelly, herself a New Yorker cartoonist for over twenty years, provides a history of women's humor and its evolution, pairing an anthology of cartoons with a survey of the genre in a wonderful, vivid overview.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

Just like I say in the title for the review, so good that i had it sent overseas to get it.

Has all the months plus a few extra pics and stuff. 5/5

The calendar is great. The delivery was quicker then I expected. Great job Amazon!!!!!!!

It's nice to see new quality Futurama artwork. Coworkers stop by to discuss their appreciation for Futurama and other cartoons they've seen on Adult Swim (most missed the show when Fox aired it intermittently on Sunday evenings).

A calendar is a calendar. For that matter, my watch, cell phone and computers can tell me what day it is. This calendar, however, makes me smile.

good good, I can slowly count the days until the show comes back

It was delivered as promised. I thought the delivery was kinda slow, but thats typical of snail mail.

It's more adventures from this fat cat....life would be pretty dull without him. Loved it!!!!

All this book is, is a collection of the daily comic from the last book with very little new material. I don't think they've created any new material for this strip sense Liz and John ended up together.

My sister and I love Garfield, and this comic is brilliant sunshine on a gray and dreary day - and you can read it over and over!

Used to do sit-ups, but this felines antics have my gut turning to steel with the unlimited laughs he serves!

Here's a comic in the book:Garfield:POISONOUS SPIDER!Get me a chair and a whip!Get me a ten-gallon drum of bug spary!It's a venom-spewing hairy legged killer!Or a piece of lint.That was a comic stript from life in the fat line.

This is a must read for any Garfield fan

Everybody out there keep buying Garfield books! They can be worth a lot of money someday and can become collector's items! I'm always going to keep all of mine so when I have kids they can read them!

The name Baloo meant a lot to us old Bob and Ray fans who fondly remember the unique sports broadcasts of Wally Baloo (aka Bob Elliott). This Baloo is the pen name of Rex May, Numero Uno among the nation's gagwriters and a significant and much published cartoonist. There are over 100 very funny cartoons such as the heavenly golfer who sliced into Purgatory -- two to a page -- in this very affordable compilation aptly subtitled The Best of Baloo.

Rex May [d.b.a. Baloo] is for cartooning what Fred Astaire was for dancing: the textbook example of "making it look easy", with the emphasis on "look". Anyone who tries to write such seemingly bare-bone yet devastating gags, to "scribble" down characters who are actually solidly built and expressive, to flesh out a background with a select few lines, as Baloo does to perfection time and again... will realize that what he does is not easy at all. Snap this up and luxuriate in the artistry of an undisputed master of the gag panel.

This is a terrific book featuring some of Baloo's greatest work. I recommend this book for anyone who loves a good laugh and also for the aspiring cartoonist looking to learn by studying some great examples. I'm in awe of his ability to say SO MUCH within the context of a simple black and white cartoon.

Gesundheit Dummy is a long overdue collection of Baloo's cartoons. Rex May (Baloo) is one of the best known magazine cartoonists in America -- his cartoons have been published practically everywhere.

I love his expressive drawing style, his hilarious characters, and his captions, which are simply the very best. Rex May's work is legendary!

This very funny book has a place of honor on my bookshelf. Any fan of great single panel cartoons will love Gesundheit, Dummy!