- ISBN13: 9780679765745
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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The New Yorker Book of Lawyer Cartoons
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5 Comments
This book is 4 inches square. I got it for a present and it was more a stocking stuffer. I have seen it in stores as a full size book. There was nothing apparent in the discription of the tiny size of the book.
I consider myself to have a good sense of humor and what is funny.
These jokes and observations were just OK at best.
I ignored other reviews that this was a tiny book. It is a REALLY tiny book. Another reviewer said they have seen it in full size. If I were you I would try to find it in a larger size. The cartoons are great though.
This is mostly just what you’d expect – a bunch of cartoons from the famous magazine. It’s surprisingly small though. The library version I peeked at was over 8.5×11, but Amazon’s version fits in a pocket.
My father had a giant book of cartoons from “The New Yorker” that I never got tired of reading as a kid. Some of the cartoonists that I learned to love way back when, such as Chas. Addams, Sidney Hoff, and Wm. Steig, are present and accounted for in this 1994 collection of cartoons devoted to the practice of the law (by those who have yet to get it right). However, most of these 85 cartoons are by some of the newer kids on the block, such as Michael Maslin and Danny Shanahan, who just do strike my funny bone with as much regularity as the old masters. The looks on the faces of the lawyer and his two clients in the Steig cartoon is not equaled throughout this book and their is not a better caption than Chon Day’s lawyer sadly informing his client, “I’ve just about resigned myself to your getting twenty years.” These are amusing enough, but really not up to the quality I expect from “The New Yorker.” On the other hand, if you were to give this book as a present to a lawyer acquaintance, they are not going to be terribly offended (which may well be the problem in a nutshell). Still, “The New York Book of Lawyer Cartoons” is worth a look through, just like an issue of the magazine. I always read all the cartoons whenever I see a copy lying around. Oh, and the listing of what movies are playing in the revival houses. The thought of going to a theater to see a Chaplin, Bogart or Hepburn movie still sounds like high culture to me.