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Cartoon Marriage: Adventures in Love and Matrimony by The New Yorker's Cartooning Couple
What happens when two cartoonists for The New Yorker fall in love and marry? Lots of witty wordplay, skewering drawings, and a healthy dose of illustrative competition. For twenty years, veteran cartoonists Liza Donnelly and Michael Maslin have been exploring in their work the ins and outs of marriage. From whimsical and wacky to risqué and barbed, their humor allows us to...more
Hardcover, 304 pages
Published
January 27th 2009
by Random House
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Some great cartoons about twosomes - not yet married, they still ring true to this reviewer's almost 5 year-old (4 years cohabiting) relationship.
My favorite lines?
***SPOILER ALLERT****
"I now pronounce you husband vs. wife."
&
"You could at least acknowledge that I'm ignoring you."
My favorite lines?
***SPOILER ALLERT****
"I now pronounce you husband vs. wife."
&
"You could at least acknowledge that I'm ignoring you."
The concept is fun and the cartoons range from the eye-rollingly lame to the run-into-the-other-room-brandishing-the-book hilarious. There are a lot of "typical" New Yorker cartoons, of course. It's well worth picking up and leafing through, though I don't think I'd read it more than once.
Kristi Fedorowicz
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Dumb, Dumb, Dumb. Don't bother with this book. These are not funny cartoons in the least. It amazes me that these people actually make a living drawing cartoons. Dumb.
Really loved this. I actually laughed out loud at a lot of the cartoons.
Dani
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This is a cute collection of single-panel cartoons about marriage. At the beginning of each section, there is a multi-panel cartoon about something in the cartoonists' own relationship. None of the cartoons are particularly edgy; I've laughed harder at webcomics like xkcd. The ones in this book remind me more of the ones I would see in Reader's Digest as a kid. Still, reading this book was a mildly amusing way to wile away an hour.
Cartoon Marriage: Adventures in Love and Matrimony by the New Yorker's Cartooning Couple by Liza Donnelly and Michael Maslin is bound to make you chuckle, whether it's about dating or weddings or
parenting or divorcing. Donnelly and Maslin look at the lighter side of marriage, professional competition, collaboration, and plain old humoring one another, both in and out of the bedroom.
parenting or divorcing. Donnelly and Maslin look at the lighter side of marriage, professional competition, collaboration, and plain old humoring one another, both in and out of the bedroom.
Funny, funny, funny cartooning couple. Sometimes it is simply the drawing (esp. Maslin), but the captions are perfect, too.
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