ISBN: 9781684427789
Editorial: Prospect Park Books
Autor: Dator, Joe
Año de edición: 2021
N° Paginas: 184
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: "Joe Dator makes me laugh. Everybody loves to look behind the scenes and his new book shows the secrets, inspirations, heartaches, and triumphs of a life in cartoons. Christopher Guest and I have a collection of original cartoons, and we love our Joe Dator!" —Jamie Lee CurtisFrom inspiration to conception and all the trials in-between.Inked is a collection of cartoons from one of the New Yorker’s most beloved cartoonists.Filled with more than 150 of Dator’s single-panel cartoons, this lively, quick-witted book betrays a deadpan sense of humor.But Inked is more than a book of cartoons. Dator also dives into the creative process, offering bonus commentary on how ideas have come to fruition, how one idea has led to another, and the various attempts to get an idea right. Along the way, he shows how a spark of imagination has turned into a laugh-out-loud moment with only a single image and caption, and how other attempts have found themselves on the cutting-room floor.Review"If you peek under the sofa cushion or into the mind of a cartoonist, mostly you will find crumbs, a couple of cheap ballpoint pens, some candy wrappers, a remote you lost in 1998, and a few greasy pennies. But every once in a while, you will find something that is really, really funny, like an anteater or a pair of jodhpurs. Joe Dator's wonderful book illuminates the idea-path to an actual cartoon. It's hilarious, too." —Roz Chast, #1 New York Times best-selling cartoonist and author"Joe Dator's Inked is full of cartoons that make me laugh. What's more, he tells you how you, too, can be a top cartoonist, sort of, but not really. Which also makes me laugh." —Ron Hauge, writer and producer of The Simpsons"Joe Dator likens pitching New Yorker cartoons to getting fired every week and applying for the same job again the following week. We are thankful for his perpetual nightmare—one that includes squirrels with nut allergies, palindromic dinosaurs, and breakfast plates arranged as happy faces. This welcome collection of his cartoons and rough sketches had me laughing so hard I snorted Pepsi out my nostrils [and I was drinking milk at the time]." —Barry Blitt, Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist and illustrator"I enjoyed this look at how Joe's particular brand of sausage is made, but it didn't do much to quell my deep-seated resentment at just how damn good he is. If I see a gag and hiss, 'I wish I'd thought of that,' chances are pretty good it's one of his. It's enraging. Go to hell, Joe." —Emily Flake, New Yorker cartoonist and author of That Was Awkward: The Art and Etiquette of the Awkward Hug"What a strange, brutal world Joe Dator inhabits! Who needs it? Why do he—and other gag cartoonists—put themselves through such pain and frustration, week after week, late-night-hour after late-night-hour? I guess because they have to. And thank goodness for that. Better them than me. I loved this book." —Mike Sacks, author of Poking a Dead Frog, Here's the Kicker, and Stinker Lets Loose"Joe Dator doesn't look like a man whose mind spirals into the realms of sarcasm, obscure thoughts and twisted imagery. He looks like just a regular dude with a day job. He has the 'cartoonist's disguise.' Looking normal allows us to disappear into the crowd and to communicate what we see . . . undetected. A cartoonist's talent goes beyond the ability to draw well. A successful cartoonist is astute, sarcastic, irreverent, and stupefyingly silly. Cartoonists are 'actors' on their own two-dimensional stage. Joe Dator's stage is about 8 inches square, I'd guess, Strathmore Bond, perhaps. Maybe he uses Windsor Newton ink. Whatever it is that propels his wonderful imagery into the universe is just a tool. And, one could say, that Joe is a tool himself. For a man of few words, he is a talented writer: a rare bird who ruffles feathers and doesn't mind laying an egg once in a while. He is an observer, a postulator, an inquisitive who pushes the envelope—and he deserve
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