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Title: The Naked Cartoonist: A New Way to Enhance Your Creativity by Robert Mankoff ISBN: 1-57912-236-1 Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.98 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Forget the text. Enjoy the cartoons
Comment: Robert Mankoff, the Cartoon Editor of the New Yorker has written the book purportedly as a learning guide for prospective cartoonists. Well, I don't want to be a cartoonist, but I do love cartoons, especially those found in the New Yorker. In leafing through the book I began having doubts that the text of the book would provide much help for a fledgling cartoonist. After awhile you simply become oblivious to the written material and hone in on the many delightful cartoons. As the book says there are 400 of them in this volume, and, to me, that justified the purchase price.
This book is certainly as good as any of the other books that form part of the New Yorker cartoon book library, and if you are a devotee of pictorial humor do pick up a copy.
Rating: 4
Summary: Here for the Holidays
Comment: As a longtime reader of the New Yorker -- and, more importantly, a longtime reader of its cartoons -- I was happy to see that the cartoon editor of the magazine had written a book. To be honest, I expected more about the inside dealings of the magazine: the idiosyncracies of famous cartoonists, the backstage intrigue that led to my favorite cartoons. That's not exaactly what this book is. It's more a solo performance by Robert Mankoff, who writes at great length about his own internal creative process. This was offputting at first, but by the end of the first chapter, I was hooked. He has an engaging voice and a real talent for illustrating his ideas (as you would expect), so the result is a pretty wonderful guidebook to human creativity and humor.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bound Gold
Comment: Perhaps that is an exaggeration: I have seen gold, held it, even watched as it was melted and molded into coins, and this book is not as valuable as gold. And yet, I cannot let go of the metaphor entirely. Gold comes from mines, where it begins life as brilliant flecks of value and inspiration amid the humid dark. And Mankoff's book, too, illustrates (literally and figuratively) how moments of comic gold can be identified, mined, and then shaped into something valuable. The mind reels, because the mind itself is shown to be a kind of reel. Auriferous artwork and puckish prose, all underpinned by a genuine interest in the alchemizing of human nature, ensure this book's success.
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Title: The Cat That Changed My Life: 50 Cats Talk Candidly About How They Became Who They Are by Bruce Eric Kaplan ISBN: 0743219449 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: How To Draw Caricatures by Lenn Redman ISBN: 0809256851 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: November, 1984 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Complete Cartooning Course by Steve Edgell, Brad Brooks, Tim Pilcher ISBN: 0764113186 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The World of Cartooning: How Caricatures Develop by Mike Peters, Marilyn Jarvis ISBN: 0913428558 Publisher: Great Potential Pr., Inc. Pub. Date: June, 1985 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cartooning by Arnold Wagner, Shannon Turlington ISBN: 0028643798 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 21 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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