The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker
10 best books like The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker (Matthew Diffee): Get Thee to a Punnery: An Anthology of Intentional Assaults Upon the English Language, In Paul Klee's Enchanted Garden, Calvin and Hobbes 1: Thereby Hangs a Tale, Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from History's Great Wits and Wordsmiths, The Superior Person's Book of Words, The World of Chas Addams, Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students, Live and Learn and Pass It on: People Ages 5 to 95 Share What They've Discovered about Life, Love, and Other Good Stuff, Encyclopedia of Bad Taste, Christmas At The New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, And Art
Parts of this book were really fascinating. I liked reading about the different types of puns and other types of word play. As a dictionary of puns, it really works and has a lot of good examples. Sometimes there were too many examples and I really didn't want to read through them all. Some of the puns relied...
| Author | Audun Eckhoff |
| ISBN | 3775721010 |
Many call Paul Klee a magician. He was no such thing; he did not conjure up anything. He was a creator who found beauty in the world around him, wrote one of Klee's students from the legendary Bauhaus. The Swiss-born painter, like many of his contemporaries--Kandinsky among them--was interested in Transcendentalism...
| Author | Bill Watterson |
| ISBN | 0751505080 |
If you have read the first Calvin and Hobbes directory that was published in the 80's, then you have read this one.
It is a paperback version of half the first book. With classic strips.
Was inspired to read it after watching "Dear Mr. Watterson" documentary on Netflix.
I missed...
| Author | Mardy Grothe |
| ISBN | 0060789484 |
For most of us, that perfect retort or witty reply often escapes us when we need it most, only to come to mind with perfect clarity when it's too late to be useful. The twentieth-century writer Heywood Broun described this all-too-common phenomenon when he wrote "Repartee is what we wish we'd said."
In...
At first glance, Peter Bowler appears to represent the position I mocked in an earlier post, that command of a larger vocabulary is a means to social advancement, and can be acquired by reading a book full of fancy words. Fortunately, closer reading of his introduction to this short, amusing, book reveals...
This is almost 400 pages of a cartoon from the sunday comics section of the paper. Each page has a picture and it may have a line underneath or not. Most of these are in black and white and about half of them are the Addams family characters. It is from his career; the 1930s to the 1970s.
Charles has...
| Author | Anders Henriksson |
| ISBN | 0761122745 |
Mangled Moments of Western Civilization from Term Papers & Blue Book Exams
Did You Know:
Cesar was assassinated on the Yikes of March when he is reported to have said, "Me too, Brutus!"
Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Truman were known as the "Big Three"
Rasputin was a pheasant...
| Author | H. Jackson Brown Jr. |
| ISBN | 1558531564 |
کتابی عالی که تجربیات افراد مختلف را نه در قالب پند بلکه در قالب صحبت هایی دوستانه بیان می کند و مخاطب احساس همزاد پنداری با تمام گویند گان جملات این کتاب می...
The subtitle of this heavenly concoction is: A celebration of American pop culture at its most joyfully outrageous.
This is not so much a book as an aspirin to banish gloom. Of course, America marches on and this book needs a major update to include such modern phenomena as Celebrity Rehab and...
| Author | The New Yorker |
| ISBN | 1400061407 |
From the pages of America’s most influential magazine come eight decades of holiday cheer—plus the occasional comical coal in the stocking—in one incomparable collection. Sublime and ridiculous, sentimental and searing, Christmas at The New Yorker is a gift of great writing and drawing...
| Author | B. Kliban |
| ISBN | 0911104674 |
All the Kliban people--from Houdini escaping New Jersey to the famed Genghis and Sylvia Khan.
“Not to put down Crumb or Koren or Booth or Rodgriguez or Trudeau or anybody else, but Kliban’s Never Eat Anything Bigger than Your Head & Other Drawings is the only book I’ve read in years...
| Author | Bill Peet |
| ISBN | 0395281598 |
“The Spooky Tail of Prewitt Peacock” is a children’s book about self-confidence from the popular children’s author, Bill Peet. This book details Prewitt’s, a peacock, dilemma when his tail, at first was scrawny, becomes a horrifying looking tail over a matter of days! This children’s...
| Author | Taras Grescoe |
| ISBN | 1582344299 |
Not exactly what I'd thought it would be, but that worked out fine. As it turns out, Grescoe is far less concerned with forbidden foods than he is with why they might be prohibited. Which means, in this case, that he's largely talking about current (as of 2005, at least) laws much more so than, say, ancient...
Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language
| Author | Ruth Wajnryb |
| ISBN | 0743274342 |
Have we always "sworn like sailors"? Has creative cursing developed because we can't just slug people when they make us angry? And if such verbal aggression is universal, why is it that some languages (Japanese, for instance) supposedly do not contain any nasty words? Throughout the twentieth century...
| Author | David Malki |
| ISBN | 1593079842 |
Wondermark is a webcomic David Malki !; not much point of a review since you can read them online (such as here: http://wondermark.com/bestof.html) and judge for yourself.
Just in case you've clicked through when you're having a bad day, or on the off chance that you perhaps suffer from a short...
| Author | Erich Ohser Plauen |
| ISBN | 3473520624 |
Beautiful childhood moments
I read this book about 100 time when I was a little kid in Iran , Loved the pictures and humor , Today it’s still melting my heart. Thank you Erich Ohzer for your books being part of my beautiful childhood memories.
The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker
| Author | Robert Mankoff |
| ISBN | 1579123228 |
The book that Janet Maslin of The New York Times has called "indispensable" and "a transfixing study of American mores and manners that happens to incorporate boundless laughs, too" is finally available in paperback—fully updated and featuring a brand new introduction by Adam Gopnik.
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| Author | Roz Chast |
| ISBN | 1582343772 |
The Party, After You Left brings together the last nine years of cartoons from Roz Chast. Together these drawings, which originally appeared in the New Yorker, Scientific American, Redbook, and other publications, constitute a spot-on record of our increasingly absurd existence. As the twenty-first...
| Author | Gary Larson |
| ISBN | 0751510939 |
Unless you're a caveman (in which case, some of your relatives may be featured within these pages), you've read The Far Side - those quirky, one-panel comics where wrong is right, up is down, and cows can talk.
This collection has a nifty little intro bit that's cool enough to make me wish Larson...
| Author | William A. Henry III |
| ISBN | 0385479433 |
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for Time magazine comes the tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive, argument that our devotion to the largely unexamined myth of egalitarianism lies at the heart of the ongoing "dumbing of America."
Americans have always stubbornly...
Red Meat: A Collection of Red Meat Cartoons From the Secret Files of Max Cannon
My first introduction to Red Meat was through Mer, and at the time it was brilliant - absurd, offensive, over-the top in terms of violence, sexual content, and language, this book made me hurt myself laughing. Which is why I find it sort of sad every time I pick up an issue of the Onion and, without fail, don't...
