What's so funny? : a cartoonist's memoir / David Sipress.
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- What is so funny? : a cartoonist's memoir
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Biography | SIPRESS, D. S618 | Available | 33111010649446 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"David Sipress's engaging, illuminating, and hilarious memoir will perhaps clarify what dark forces are at work when it comes to becoming a cartoonist rather than a podiatrist, a billionaire tech mogul, or someone who is deeply into collecting owl figurines. And if it doesn't, you will love it anyway."-- Roz Chast
From a longtime New Yorker staff cartoonist, an evocative family memoir, a love letter to New York City, and a delightful exploration of the origins of creativity--richly interleaved with the author's witty, beloved cartoons.
David Sipress, a dreamer and obsessive drawer living with his Upper West Side family in the age of JFK and Sputnik, goes hazy when it comes to the ceaselessly imparted lessons-on-life from his meticulous father and the angsty expectations of his migraine-prone mother. With wry and brilliantly observed prose, Sipress paints his hapless place in the family, from the time he is tricked by his unreliable older sister into rocketing his pet turtle out his twelfth-floor bedroom window to the moment he walks away from a Harvard PhD program in Russian history to begin his life as a professional cartoonist. Sipress's cartoons appear in the story with spot-on precision, inducing delightful Aha! moments in answer to the perennial question aimed at cartoonists: Where do you get your ideas?
"From a longtime New Yorker staff cartoonist, an evocative family memoir, a love letter to New York City, and a delightful exploration of the origins of creativity -- richly interleaved with the author's witty, beloved cartoons." -- From publisher's description.
Part One. Happy Accident -- Red Racer -- Good Boy -- Flying Turtle -- My Christmas Story -- The Meaning Of Money -- Chicken Counting -- Robbery -- Anger Mismanagement -- Never Again -- Resistance Movements -- Comedy -- "A Young Man Has Been Taken Into Custody..." -- Part Two. Russian History -- The Call -- Happy Birthday -- Another Happy Birthday -- Never Happen -- Are We There Yet? -- Secret Sauce -- The Whole Story -- Part Three. Bygones -- Beautiful Things -- Losing Linda -- Discoveries.